Articles

I enjoy writing essays almost as much as composing music. The following selections include program notes to my music compositions, and other essays about music and education, which are not published in journals.

Complexity vs. Simplicity, Better or Worse?

November 23, 2024

Are Music Competitions Healthy for Students?

November 09, 2024

Are Music Exams Necessary?

October 26, 2024

Is Improvisation Essential for Musicianship Training?

October 12, 2024

Learning Rules and Breaking Rules – The Procedure of Studying and Creating Music?

September 28, 2024

Do You Believe that Any Musician Can Compose?

September 13, 2024

Musician’s Preference: Working Alone or Collaborating with Others?

August 30, 2024

Do You Consider Daily Practice Necessary?

August 16, 2024

Global Jazzwomen Hang: August 1, 2024 Reflections

August 12, 2024

Concert Review: MICROPLASTIQUE Live at Waterloo Arts

July 21, 2024

From Performer to Music Creator: How Can They Do That?

June 08, 2024

How to Support Students through Assessment of their Music Compositions?

September 06, 2023

Summer Inspirations

July 25, 2023

Is Music Theory Essential to Music Composition?

July 6, 2023

Jazz Development in Hong Kong

October 2019

Notes on Boundless  Groove 

June 2019

Notes on Six Tang Poems

August 2015

New Identity of Women Composers

December 2009

 

Notes on Serenade

August 2009

Notes on We Gather Here Together/ Somewhere Faraway

March 2009

Contemplating Today's Musical Styles: An Observation from IRC 2007

July 2007

My Philosophy of Education

April 2007

 

Notes on Taiwanese Suite for piano trio

April 1998

A New Approach to Teaching Composition in the 21st Century

December 2006

A Preliminary Study of Creativity among Chinese Students

April 2006

Notes on Taiwanese Suite for piano trio

April 1998

曲終人散 

1984

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