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Artistic Committee
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Danilo Delfin (Hong Kong)
Artistic Director
Conductor / Educator
Danilo Delfin was a trumpet player of the Hong Danilo Delfin was a trumpet player of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta for over 20 years, studying under Henry Nowak, Aigi Hurn, and Judith Saxton. He received his music education from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Brass Pedagogy from Chichester University (UK). Awarded the HKAPA Director’s Scholarship and the World Association for Symphonic Band and Ensembles scholarship, he studied conducting at SUNY Fredonia with Dr. Paula Holcomb and Dr. Glenn Price, and at the Sibelius Academy with Peter Ettrup Larsen.
He has performed with the Asian Youth Orchestra, Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra, and HK Sinfonietta, touring internationally. Delfin has collaborated with renowned conductors and musicians like Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Håkan Hardenberger. As a conductor, he leads various school bands, orchestras, and community bands in Hong Kong. He was the music director of the Tom Lee Neowinds Orchestra and has guest-conducted internationally. Danilo organized several concert bands for the World Music Contest (The Netherlands), MidEurope Music Festival (Austria), Singapore International Band Festival and the Winter Band Festival (Hong Kong), achieving numerous prizes along the way. Delfin served as HKBDA Chairman and was a board member of WASBE.
He played a key role in promoting Hong Kong wind bands and local composers. He also played a key role in organizing the Asia Pacific Band Directors’ Association Conference (APBDA) in 1996 and 2010 in Hong Kong. Currently, he is the vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Band Directors’ Association. In 2024, he was appointed as Yamaha Conductor in Hong Kong, China.
Eiji Suzuki was born in Tokyo, in 1965 and studied composition, piano, conducting and Gagaku at the Tokyo University of the Arts. His catalogue consists of original compositions, symphonic transcriptions and arrangements of film scores.
His orchestral works are also performed by premier professional orchestras such as Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa. His commissioning clients include Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, Tokyo Wind Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Shion Wind Orchestra, Siena Wind Orchestra and many recording companies.
His works are premiered at the Midwest Clinic, the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, Taiwan International Clinic, and performed by the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka, which are published by Bravo Music and De Haske.
Workshops also be held in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, etc.
Special recognitions have included the 11th Japan Academic Society of Winds, Percussion and Brass Academy Award in 2001 and Ministry of Foreign Affairs diplomatic mission award for his contribution and compositions. His work was used in the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
At present, he is special guest professor at SHOBI College of Music, Senzoku College of Music and Soai University.
His leading works include Genesis (2022All Japan Brass Band Association Required piece), Cantus Sonare, Ho-O - Jin-ai cho-fu, The Land of Great Promise: Chingis Khan, and many arrangements (Merry Widow Selections and Der Vogelhandler), and are recorded in various
CDs.
Eiji-Suzuki (Japan)
Composer / Conductor / Educator
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Ernest Hui (Hong Kong)
Composer / Conductor / Educator
Ernest Hui is a homegrown composer and choral conductor based in Hong Kong. Adept at traditional choral and contemporary a cappella music, he has worked as performer and instructor for organisations including the HKFYG Melody Makers (performing artist, conductor & resident composer), Vocal Asia & VAF for Kids (instructor & arranger), Macao Cultural Centre Children’s Choir (music director). He is currently the music director of the newly established Yat Po Choir.
Over the years, Hui has worked in collaboration with professional musicians in multiple theatrical productions, notably: Rock Hard, Yat Po Two Shows 2024 (choral director); Requiem HK and This Victoria Has No Secrets (assistant choral director); Twisted Fate (composer & music director); Missing Our Echoes (music director); and Assemblages (chorus master).
Ernest Hui read music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he studied voice with Chan Siu Kwan, and subsequently completed his Master of Music (Composition) under the tutelage of Chan Wai-Kwong Victor as a CASH Music Scholarship awardee.
Amongst his choral works, When the Stars Wish Upon You was nominated as top 5 finalists for the CASH Best Serious Composition Award, and was selected as Set Piece for the 76th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival and received wide acclaim. His arrangement of Amazing Grace was awarded the winner of the SMP Press Composition Competition 2020.
Dr Tian-Tee Lee was the president of the Wind Band Association of Singapore. As a former trumpeter for the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, he is currently a visiting professor at the School of Music Education in Sichuan Conservatory of Music. Dr. Lee also served as Board member of WASBE, IBE of WMC.
In 2009, Dr. Lee hired as the visiting Professor of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, and he single handedly started an experimental course of wind music education at the Institute of Music Education. The outcome was remarkable and received favorable comments from students, teachers and the public at large. In 2012, Wind Band Music Education was formally established. This is the first and only Wind Band music education program in China. It has filled the gap in the field of music education in the country and promoted the improvement and development of Wind Band music education. In September 2012, the wind music education program welcomed the first music education students, a total of 18 people, and recruited the first class of graduating students in 2013 under this faculty.
Dr Lee, as Conn-Selmer artist continues to promote the development of wind works in China during his tenure in He travels to Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macao, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Xining, Lanzhou, Chongqing, Guiyang, Qingdao, and Zhanjiang, among other places to participate, judging various competitions and presenting master classes. He also serves as the Director of Chongqing Police Band. Dr Lee received his Trumpet performance degree from Eastern Michigan University under the Singapore Public service Commission / Singapore symphony Orchestra Scholarship. His Master in Music Education from University of the Pacific was under Singapore Lee Foundation Scholarship. He got his PHD scholarship from Singapore Nanyang Technological University to study his Research dissertation.
In 2015 he and his association organized a very successful WASBE conference in Singapore.
Dr Lee Tian Tee (Singapore)
Conductor / Educator
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Mr. Chang Ying-Chung Steven (China Taipei)
Conductor / Educator
Awarded the gold medal and best conductor in 2010 Bei-Jing International Band Festival, Mr. Steven Ying-Chung Chang received Master degree of Music in orchestral conducting from Fu- Jen Catholic University graduate school of music. Studied with Prof. Kuo Lien-Chang, Prof. Michel Rochet and further study with Dr. Rodney Winther in University of Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music, he was also a participant of the masterclass of Dr. Fredrick Fennel and Sir Lorin Maazel.
After serving as principal trombone in Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra for years Mr. Chang was appointed the conductor of National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Wind Ensemble (2000- 2005). He also regularly guest conducts other professional wind orchestras such as Republic of China Air Force Band, Taiwan Wind Ensemble and Taoyuan Symphonic Band. From 2001, Mr. Chang was invited to be the music director of Taipei Sirens Symphonic Winds, which is one of the leading groups in Taiwan. Under his baton the orchestra had won three consecutive champions in the Band Competition of Taiwan Band Association (2007-2009, open division). Recently Mr. Chang and the Sirens won another champion in the Band Competition of Chiayi International Band Festival (2014, open division), and once more awarded the best conductor of this event.
Mr. Chang is often invited as guest conductor in many countries including Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and China. In 2010 he was invited to participate the 30th Summer of Harbin Festival which is one of the most celebrated art festivals in China. In the final concert Mr. Chang conducted the Harbin Opera Symphony Orchestra and successfully won public acclaims on the national press and media.
As a music educator, Mr. Chang teaches in universities and public schools, and he regularly travels around Taiwan to do band clinics and conducts masterclasses. In the past 20 years, his school bands in all levels have won the awards of distinction in annual Taiwan National Student Music Competition for over 80 times, and national champions for 32 times in total.