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Patrick Lui
Patrick Lui is an award-winning pianist, composer, arranger, and producer. Since graduating from Berklee College of Music, he has won the Marvin Hamlisch International Music Award (Jazz Composition), the Taichung Jazz Festival Piano Competition, and was a semi-finalist at the Bucharest International Jazz Competition. His jazz orchestra piece Mirror Dance was the first jazz composition nominated for ‘Best Serious Composition’ at the CASH Golden Sail Music Awards. His work as a co-producer with pop group RubberBand over the years has garnered them the prestigious ‘Album of The Year’, ’Song of The Year’ awards, by Commercial Radio Hong Kong, and the ‘Best Song’ award at the CASH Golden Sail Music Awards.
An internationally active jazz pianist and composer, has performed his own works alongside Alex Sipiagin, Will Vinson, Kyoto Composers Jazz Orchestra, and Taipei Jazz Orchestra. Patrick has also traveled worldwide to appear in festivals including JENerations Jazz Festival (USA), EUROPAfest, Takatsuki Jazz Street Festival, Kanazawa Street Jazz Festival, Taichung Jazz Festival, Clockenflap, Freespace Jazz Festival, and Hong Kong Jazz Marathon among others. In 2024, he was invited by the International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers (ISJAC) to present one of his big band arrangements at their bi-annual symposium held in Nashville. Patrick also presented and performed his big band rearrangements of Hong Kong film music with Shiho and the Kyoto Composers’ Jazz Orchestra at the Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting (YPAM) in the same year, bringing the voice of Hong Kong to a global audience. His own jazz orchestra was invited by the Jazz Education Network in the US to perform at their annual conference, and has been headlining the Freespace Jazz Festival for six consecutive years. The orchestra was invited by Alliance Française to perform a concert ‘Jazz In French Films’ at the French May festival, playing rearrangements of jazz found in prominent French movies.
Besides jazz and pop, Patrick is also an accomplished classical pianist, and has appeared as a soloist with City Chamber Orchestra Hong Kong, performing jazz legend Michel Camilo’s ‘Suite for Piano, Strings and Harp’ and Claude Bolling’s ‘Suite for Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Piano Trio’. Patrick has also collaborated with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra as an arranger and pianist for a concert paying tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and Charlie Parker.
As a composer, Patrick contributed to the score for three feature films - The Bounty, This Is Not What I Expected, and Chasing The Dragon. To broaden his horizons in music across different genres, he received a full scholarship from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund and completed his Master’s degree at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with distinction, furthering his studies in traditional music.
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Our Jazz Pianists LIVE!
by Rob Garratt
Before you even drop the needle or hit play, take a moment to soak in the title of the recording you hold in your hands. The emphasis must fall squarely on the first word: these are our jazz pianists—Hong Kong's. A proud statement of ownership, acknowledging a fresh wave of young talent breaking in a city not renowned for its appreciation or cultivation of improvised music.It's the same title of the four-hour concert where these performances were recorded, one long, ...
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Continue ReadingJoyce Cheung, Daniel Chu, Bowen Li and Patrick Lui at Youth Square
by Rob Garratt
Joyce Cheung, Daniel Chu, Bowen Li and Patrick Lui Y Theatre, Youth Square Jazz World Live Series: Our Jazz Pianists Chai Wan, Hong Kong July 4, 2021 There was a proud sense of ownership evident in dubbing this event Our Jazz Pianists. Hong Kong's Jazz World Live Series has brought legions of international legends to the city over the past eight years: from Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea to Marcus ...
Continue ReadingPatrick Lui Jazz Orchestra at Hong Kong City Hall
by Rob Garratt
Patrick Lui Jazz Orchestra Hong Kong City Hall French May June 17, 2021 Yes, that date above is correct--and if the world's ongoing global nightmare has offered any relief to musicians of late, it might be the fresh appreciation afforded often overlooked players in their own communities. Nightlife and concert venues may be tentatively reopening, but while travel and quarantine restrictions remain, who else is going to play them? The spotlights are ...
Continue Reading“...a masterclass in collective improvisation…a stellar new trio whose dexterity and interplay was a joy to behold.”
-All About Jazz
“...fully transformed Bruce Lee’s music into jazz, far exceeding my expectations…in both quality and enjoyment.””
-Jazz Tokyo
“Patrick has gradually become a household name in the local music scene…”
-CODA Jazz Kissa
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