Australian Composers Orchestral Forum provides emerging composers the opportunity to work with a professional symphony orchestra
ACOF 2004 Participant - Adeline Wong
Biography
Adeline Wong was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She obtained her Diploma of Music from La Salle College of the Arts, Singapore from 1992-95 and pursued her Bachelor of Music at the Eastman School of Music, USA. At Eastman, Adeline was the recipient of the George Eastman Award from 1995-98. In 2001, Adeline was awarded a scholarship from the Royal College of Music to complete her Masters of Music (Composition) studying composition with Edwin Roxburgh and piano with Neil Immelman. She has also studied with Joseph Schwantner, Christopher Rouse, David Liptak, Augusta Read Thomas and John Sharpley.
Adeline’s compositions have been performed in London, Los Angeles, New York, Italy, Singapore and Malaysia. The premiere of her chamber work, Cahaya, represented RCM in the Conservatoire Composers’ Forum at the Royal Academy of Music in April 2002, performed by the Welsh College of Music and Drama. Her composition Sojourn for octet was awarded the Cobbett and Hurlstone Prize from RCM in 2002. Her composition, Trio was commissioned and premiered by the Albatros Ensemble in Vicenza, Italy.
More recently, Wong was commissed by the Goethe Institut Kuala Lumpur to compose a film score for the German silent film, Five Mysterious Stories. This film score won her an invitation to the Berlinale-Talent Campus of the prestigious Berlin Film Festival in February 2004. In 2004 Wong's orchestral work Steel Sky was premiered by the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO); she was commissed to compose a music theatre work, Five Letters from an Eastern Empire by Sumunda Productions; and she was commissioned by the the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) for the Spectrum 5 series in March 2005.
Wong is also an accomplished performed and has participated in a Master Class with Krystian Zimerman. She performs classical repertoire, her own compositions and other contemporary works with chamber ensemble, and currently lectures in Sedaya College of Music, Yamaha Academy of Music and Akademi Seni Kebangsaan in Malaysia.
