美少女革命: Drama Queens (2022)
ユーフォニアムとライブエレクトロニクスのための

作曲: 向井響
ユーフォニアム: 佐藤采香

B→C佐藤采香ユーフォニアムリサイタル＜香川公演＞
2022年9月23日(金)　会場: 穴吹学園ホール

Bishoujo-Kakumei: Drama Queens (2022)
for euphonium and live-electronics

Composed by Hibiki Mukai

美少女革命: Drama Queens (2022)for euphonium and live-electronics

Whispers of Reality and Reverie (2025) for Wind Orchestra

Tearing apart those wings for solo violin and string trio

Peace Of Mind 《心安》

Academy Orchestral Composition Recording Workshop
7 January 2016 at HKAPA Concert Hall
Academy Symphony Orchestra Concert
Orchestra: Academy Symphony Orchestra


「明鏡止水」指心境的修為,比喻心靈明淨,毫無雜念。

此作提醒自己心如明鏡、心止如水,以寧靜和坦誠的心態面對任何事物。

這首作品已是《明鏡止水》系列的第三首,一如以往,我希望以最簡約的音樂素材,透過緩慢和微細的變化而發展整首樂曲。記得創作每一首《明鏡止水》時也不斷質疑自己的能力,創作時思路常常堵住,寫不下去,於是把樂曲重寫,這個過程還重複了很多次。直至期限將至,只好隨心地寫,才能把作品完成,有時也不知道這樣是好是壞。我認為創作的本質不應是痛苦,但創作過程很難沒有痛苦的部份。畢業在即,我希望自己能承受創作時的苦,同時不要忘記創作時的快樂和那一份初衷,在音樂路上走下去。

Peace Of Mind III 明鏡止水III

Nyx for flute and computer

「新・美少女革命(2017)」 
"Drama queen/Euphoria/Navel-gazing"

 for harp and electronics

「新・美少女革命」"Drama queen/Euphoria/Navel-gazing" (2017) for harp and electronics

美少女革命: Dolls 人形浄瑠璃と大アンサンブルのための

Commissioned by John Boyd and Indiana State University Wind Orchestra
(picture with John Boyd and Nobuya Sugawa)

Performed by Peabody Wind Ensemble, Harlan Parker. 2012

Toward Dawn for wind orchestra (2010) - Peabody Wind Ensemble, Harlan Parker

SO Ka-wai obtained both undergraduate and M.Phil degree at Hong Kong Baptist University, majoring music composition under the supervision of Prof. Christopher Keyes and Dr. Christopher Coleman. His works have been premiered local and overseas, including Asian Composers League Conference and Festival (2011 in Taipei, 2015 in Philippines), Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival (Indonesia), the XVI World Saxophone Congress (Scotland) and Kagoshima Asian Youth Arts Festival (Japan). Moreover, his works were frequently selected as set pieces in the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival.

Influenced from his musical training, SO Ka-wai is one of the young composers focusing on composing and arranging music for wind band. SO has received commissions for writing new works, such as wind orchestra suite “Four Supernatural Constellations”, saxophone concerto “Infatuazione” and symphonic poem “The Utterance of Wind”. During 2012-13, he was commissioned by Parson Wind Orchestra to arrange a set of Cantonpop songs of Kolor and premiered into the concerts. 

Apart from working as a composer, he is an active clarinetist. Learning clarinet from the age of thirteen with Mr. Cheung Wan, Mr. Andrew Simon and Mr. Martin Choy Kwok-tin while performed in the master-class conducted by Dr. David Pino during studying undergraduate at HKBU, he was a member of Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band and the Klappen Ensemble. He is now the concertmaster of the Parsons Wind Orchestra with assisting the coaching and managing duties in the ensemble.

Whispers of Reality and Reverie (2025) for Wind Orchestra

SO Ka-wai

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