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About Keith Wong

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Keith Wong, a jazz vocalist and composer, discovered his passion for music in Hong Kong, where he was born and raised. Having graduated from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2022, he is one of the few singers from Hong Kong who received formal jazz vocal training. He brings a diverse cultural background to his music, enriching it with his choral and theatrical experiences.

Known for his creative writing, Keith Wong won the Best Original Music of the Year at the Beehive Music Award 2022 from A Cappella China. Fueling his artistic pursuits, Keith Wong received support from both the Sena Performers Music Production Funds in the Netherlands and the Hong Kong Art Development Council in 2023, facilitating the creation of his debut "Intertwined." Every song on the album bears his creative fingerprint, blending elements of modern jazz, choral arrangement, and theatrical essence.

About Pete M Wyer

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Pete M Wyer

Born: March 24, 1964

Pete M. Wyer is from a self-taught background. He started out as a guitarist touring and recording with bands in the 1980’s and 90’s. He has since written scores for the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Operas House, Opera North, Welsh National Opera, the American Opera Project, Juilliard, BBC Television and Radio, WNYC New Sounds Live. He is the creator of a series of ground-breaking projects, including a new system of music writing called time-structured scoring, which was used for the collaboration with poet Steve Dalachinsky 'Insomnia Poems' which was created for BBC radio 3 in 2009 and performed for the 10th anniversary in 2019 at Cafe Oto, London. His immersive installations, nicknamed 'iForests' have attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors, the largest, at Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles, used 72 independent audio speakers spread across an area of woodland and featured a choir of 72 voices