Patrick Lui

Patrick Lui is an award-winning pianist, composer, arranger, and producer. Born in Hong Kong, he graduated from the Berklee College of Music and has appeared worldwide at many renowned music festivals including JENerations Jazz Festival (USA), EUROPAfest, Taichung Jazz Festival and Kanazawa JAZZ STREET. His international awards as both a pianist and a composer include First Prize at the Taichung Jazz Piano Competition (2011), Semi-Finalist at the Bucharest International Jazz Competition (2016) and the prestigious Marvin Hamlisch International Music Awards for Jazz Composition (2020-2021). As both guest conductor and pianist, he has performed with the Taipei Jazz Orchestra at the Chiayi City International Band Festival and with the Kyoto Composers Jazz Orchestra in Japan. In Hong Kong he founded the Patrick Lui Jazz Orchestra and has performed his own compositions with the band at the Jazz Marathon for the International Jazz Day 2019 with special guest Will Vinson, the Freespace Jazz Fest 2020 at the West Kowloon Cultural District and at the Education Network 2021 conference in the USA. Recordings with his band include Sonder, a 2020 release for the Sony Music label mixed, recorded, and mastered by the two-time Grammy-award winning Mike Marciano, and featuring New York-based jazz musicians with guest trumpeter Alex Sipiagin. To further his interests in other areas including traditional music, Patrick Lui received The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund to pursue a Master’s degree at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. His collaborations in the Canto Pop music industry with RubberBand has led to co-producing an album entitled Easy which won the prestigious ‘Album of The Year’ by Commercial Radio Hong Kong in 2012.

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