Presented by the Department of Music and The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music, June in Buffalo, a festival and conference dedicated to composers, will take place June 6-13 2016 at the University at Buffalo. June in Buffalo offers an intensive schedule of seminars, lectures, workshops, professional presentations, participant forums and open rehearsals as well as afternoon and evening concerts open to the general public and critics. Each of the invited composers will have one of his/her pieces performed during the festival. Evening performances feature faculty composers, resident ensembles and soloists renowned internationally as interpreters of contemporary music.

Galison Lau is one of the most active composers in his generation in Hong Kong. He studied with Wing-fai Law, Clarence Mak, and Samuel Lo in Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He also studied with Leonardo Balada and Fabien Lévy in Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. US.
Mr. Lau’s compositions were performed or broadcasted in many places and events, including IC2017 Contemporary Song Festival; ACL 2013 Singapore; ISCM – ACL World Music Days 2007; Being chosen as one of the pieces from Hong Kong in the 2006 International Rostrum of Composers in Paris; the Lilian Baylis Theatre in Sadlers Wells, London; Musicarama 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, in Hong Kong; New Generation 2005, 2006, in Hong Kong.
Galison got several commissions, including Hong Kong Arts Festival 2014; Spotlight On Young Musicians Concert Series 1 in June 2011; Musicarama 2010, and 2012 by Hong Kong Composers’ Guild with sponsorship from CASH Music Fund. In 2009, Scents, for string quartet, was chosen to be the first prize of Harry Archer Memorial Scholarship. He also composed a piece for the inauguration of the Wellcome Theatre of the HKAPA in 2006.
His music was performed or read by renowned ensembles, including Munich Chamber Orchestra; Parker String Quartet; MIVOS Quartet; RTHK Quartet; Varshavsky Shapira Piano Duo; Hong Kong New Music Ensemble.

劉詠浲在香港同輩中其中一位最活躍的作曲家。他曾於香港演藝學院師隨羅永暉，麥偉鑄及盧厚敏。於美國卡內基美隆大學曾師隨Leonardo Balada及Fabien Lévy。
作品曾於「創意間的親暱」2017當代歌曲音樂節、2013亞洲作曲家聯盟、2007國際現代音樂節、2006巴黎國際作曲家交流會議、英國薩德勒威爾斯劇院、音樂新一代 2005、2006決賽、音樂新文化 2005，2010，2011，2012等演出或廣播。
劉氏曾獲多個委約，包括2014香港藝術節、2011年6月 聚「招」青年音樂家第一季、由CASH資助香港作曲家聯會委約音樂新文化2010及2012等。2009年，作品《氣味》，獲得哈利．阿徹紀念獎冠軍。2006年他為香港演藝學院新落成的劇院開幕創作及演出。
作品曾由多個樂團演出或試奏，包括慕尼黑室內樂團、Parker弦樂四重奏、MIVOS四重奏、香港電台弦樂四重奏、Varshavsky Shapira鋼琴二重奏、香港創樂團等。

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