Violinist
ABOUT ME
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Freelance musician, violinist, and violin/viola instructor
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Master of Music in Violin Performance (JMU, USA)
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Adv. Diploma of Performing Arts, violin (HKAPA)
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Recipient of Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Scholarship, the Grantham Scholarships Fund and Lin Yao Ji Music Foundation of China
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Member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the honored music society
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Lecturer of The Chinese University of Hong Kong the School of Continuing and Professional Studies (CUSCS)
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Instructor of the workshop "Be a Volin Star" at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Arts Festival
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Syllabus Advisor of the Music Festival organized by the Hong Kong Schools Music and Speech Association
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Jockey Club Tin Yuet Youth Classical Music Advisor Committee
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Guest speaker for sharing music journey at local schools
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Director of Splendour Music
Pauline Tang has performed and collaborated with acclaimed musicians from different countries of the world extensively as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician throughout the United States, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Macau, Hong Kong and China. She participated in music festivals including Aurora Music Festival, American Institute of Musical Studies Festival Orchestra, the International Academy of Music, Hot Springs Music Festival, Beverly Hill International Music Festival, Quartet Program and Kagoshima Cultural Exchange Program.
Her solo performances At Night of the Opera and Heaven and Underworld with the Hong Kong Symphony and Hong Kong Wind Symphony respectively received appreciation from the audience. She worked before with the Hong Kong Symphony Youth Orchestra and the University Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 and Wieniawski’s Concerto No.2 respectively.
As one of the founders of Splendour Music established in 2015, Tang presents creative music with life messages through the production of multimedia concerts. Her production in 2018 Sprout was co-organized with the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) supported by the HKAPA Creative Collaboration Project Fund - crossing over classical and contemporary music with dance, drama, app interactive and video images. Tang was the Creative Music Director of the project and was involved in creating the plot and music programme, coordinated and participated in rehearsals and performances as both performer and actress. The production team, over 70 people involved, consisting of faculty members, alumni and students from the School of Music, Drama, Dance, Film and TV, Theatre and Entertainment Arts and Chinese Opera. Other past productions included Hope in Lamentations, Traverse and Splendour. During the pandemic recently, the organization produces the online concert "Victory in Adversity" to bring positive energy to society.
Tang actively performed in contemporary and chamber music. She was invited by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble to attend Sounds of Tomorrow International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) World Music Days 2016, Tongyeong International Music Festival in South Korea. In addition, she participated in the Chung Chi Composers’ concert, Sound Imagination Hong Kong Snapshots and universities tours with Hong Kong Composer Guild Music Ensemble. She was invited by Hong Kong reputed Yangquin soloist Kwok Ka Ying to have a premier performance of Jamie Lin’s 1949 Overture with Yangqin and String Quartet. Tang performed a lot of chamber concerts before in string quartet, piano trio, piano quartet and also with winds instruments.
Having extensive orchestral experience, Tang performed under the baton of Edo de Waart, Henry Shek, Gerrit Priessnitz from Vienna, Joseph Colaneri from Metropolitan Opera , NYC and Peter Bay from Austin Symphony Orchestra in USA. She has been a member of Hong Kong String Orchestra, New Philharmonia of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra, Six Arts Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Orchestra, Opera Hong Kong, Hong Kong Symphonia, Inheritage Philharmonic and the guest violinist of the Vocational Training Council (VTC) Symphony Orchestra, etc. She is currently the concertmaster of the Global Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Mak Ka Lok.
Having concern and passion for serving the needs of the society, Tang collaborates with Food Angel (NGO) for a music project Love, Make Dream Fly in which she is the project leader of the program for events and budget planning. The project helps low-income families kids to have music training and performance with professional musicians. In addition, she is the classical music development advisor of the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups to serves as a performer, holding masterclasses and adjudicator of the instrumental competition. She held talks, performances and masterclass at different secondary schools for encouraging youth to have a passion for performing music. She is the set pieces selection of the graded Violin Solo classes of the Hong Kong Schools Music and Speech Association Music Festival, adjudicator of the instrumental competition organized by Hong Kong Youth Performance Art and Development Association, a lecturer of The Chinese University of Hong Kong the School of Continuing and Professional Studies (CUSCS), as well as a guest speaker of the seminar on “Performance Studies” at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK).
Tang has interviewed and appeared on media such as TV programs TVB Cultural Square and Tuesday Report, radio programs RTHK Radio 4 Children’s Corner and Metro Radio Original Life for actively promote classical music in the society. She recently appeared in the HKUST Alumni Magazine “Sound of The Success” and was invited as a featured alumnus for greet HKUST’s 30th Anniversary video. On 17 Nov 2021, she was invited to be the first solo performer in the opening ceremony of the Shaw Auditorium.
She received her Master of Music degree in performance at James Madison University (JMU) and previously studied Advanced Diploma at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA). She was awarded the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Scholarship, the Grantham Scholarships Fund and Lin Yao Ji Music Foundation of China during her performance studies. She also attended Masterclasses of renowned violinists Charles Castleman, Ilya Grubert, Masao Kawasaki, Helen Kwalwasser, Yuval Yaron, Alexander Kerr, Eugene Gratovich, Max Rabinovitj, Wanchi Huang, Amadi Azikiwe, Lorenz Gamma and Katie Wolfe. Tang previously obtained a Master and Bachelor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where she held a concert and workshop at the HKUST Arts Festival.
鄧氏熱衷演奏，曾到世界各地參與演出，擁有豐富獨奏、室樂和樂團演奏經驗。她參加多個音樂節，與各地音樂好手交流，包括在瑞典舉辦的極光音樂節、意大利國際音樂學院音樂節、比佛利山國際音樂節、美國音樂研究學會於奧地利舉辦的節慶管弦樂團、美國四重奏計劃及日本鹿兒島文化交流計劃。
近期鄧氏分別與香港交響樂團和香港管樂團合作獨奏演出，得到觀眾的正面評價和廣受歡迎。她之前亦與香港青年交響樂團和香港科技大學管弦樂團分別演奏莫札特第四首小提琴協奏曲和維尼奧夫斯基第二首小提琴協奏曲。
鄧氏於2015年成立非牟利團體《絢炫樂軒》，製作多媒體音樂並傳遞生命訊息。近期她以創意音樂總監，與香港演藝學院合辦《萌》多媒體音樂會，當中團隊包括各大院校:音樂、戲劇、舞蹈、戲曲、電影電視、舞台及製作藝術的師生和畢業生共70多人。當中她負責統籌音樂排練，整個演出流程並擔任樂手和演員。其他以前的製作包括《哀歌中的盼望》、《越》和《絢》多媒體音樂會。近期疫情，《絢炫樂軒》製作了一個多媒體線上音樂會《逆可得勝》給予社會正能量。
鄧氏亦活躍演奏現代音樂和室內樂。她應邀香港創樂團參與在韓國舉辦的國際現代音樂協會世界音樂日、香港作曲家協會出席香港中文大學崇基作曲家音樂會、聲影集和到各大學介紹和演出現代音樂。於2014年，鄧氏與香港著名揚琴家郭嘉瑩合作首演《一九四九序曲》。此外，鄧氏經常舉辦各類型室內樂音樂會包括弦樂四重奏、鋼琴三重奏、鋼琴四重奏和與管樂合奏。
鄧氏曾與多位世界著名指揮家合作，於多個樂團參與演奏工作，包括香港絃樂團、香港新愛樂樂團、香港交響樂團、六藝管弦樂團、馬勒樂團、傳承愛樂等。她現與由音樂總監麥家樂帶領的《寰宇交響樂團》合作，擔任首席。
為了關懷社會的需要，鄧氏與惜食堂合作一個音樂計劃「愛。讓夢想起飛」音樂分享會，為深水埗區低收入家庭兒童提供小提琴教學，讓他們有機會接觸學習音樂和演出。鄧氏也為賽馬會天悅青年空間天水圍古典音樂青年專業諮詢委員會作表演嘉賓和樂器比賽評判。此外，多間學校邀請她分享自己的音樂歷程，除了讓青少年認識古典音樂，也希望能啟發他們對生命的反思。應香港學校音樂及朗誦協會邀請，鄧氏現於香港學校音樂節作指定曲目選材。她亦應邀香港青少年表演藝術交流發展協會舉辦的弦樂比賽作評判。她在中文大學持續進修任教和香港教育學院演奏科目的研討會作嘉賓講員。
鄧氏分別於翡翠台的《星期二檔案》、《文化廣場》、香港電台第四台《親親同樂日》和新城財經台《原味生活館》等節目接受傳媒訪問，致力為音樂藝術發展出一分力。最近她接受科大校友雜誌訪問。作為科大傑出校友之一，她被邀請參與拍攝祝賀科大30週年校慶。於2021年11月17日，她出席科大逸夫演藝中心開幕，作第一位演出獨奏嘉賓。
鄧沛玲就讀美國詹姆斯麥迪遜大學，師隨黃宛頎教授，獲音樂演奏(小提琴) 碩士學位。在留學美國期間，鄧氏參與著名小提琴家大師班，如海倫．喬韋莎、約弗．亞隆查理斯．卡斯特曼、Max Rabinovitj、亞歷山大．科爾、勞倫斯．伽瑪 及凱蒂．沃爾夫等。她之前於香港演藝學院修讀演奏深造文憑，並獲頒發成龍慈善基金獎學金、葛量洪獎學金及林耀基中國音樂基金。她亦於香港科技大學修讀環境工程獲得碩士學位，曾出席香港科技大學藝術節的演出和工作坊。