Dr Viola YUEN

Dr Viola Yuen is an active composer, arranger, conductor and an A Cappella singer who is enthusiastic about the appreciation of human voices in various musical compositions.

Graduated from Hong Kong Baptist College and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Dr Yuen also holds a Doctoral Degree of Music at The Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School, majoring in composition under the supervision of Professor Victor Chan. She also studied composition under the guidance of Mr. Chan Pui Fan, Mr. Law Wing Fai, Professor Richard Tsang and Professor Clarence Mak in earlier periods; choral and orchestral conducting under Mr. Byron Mcgilvary, Dr. Yip Wai Hong, Mr. Angus Watson, Mr. Gordon Kember, Ms Yip Wing-sie, Mr. Dennis de Coteau and Dr. Angela Tam; and vocal music under Mr. Mak Chi Shing and Madam Poon Chi Ching. She was awarded the Lions Joseph Koo Music Foundation Scholarship in 2009, 2010 and 2011, and also the CASH scholarship (The Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Scholarship) in 2014.

She is the Music Director of the Sregnis Singer, the first contemporary A Cappella group in Hong Kong and an adjunct lecturer of The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and the Bachelor of Music (Honours) programme of Kingston University (UK). She is also instructing a choral conducting course.