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Kevin Lau is active as a composer of contemporary and film music. His first complete composition, Empire of Paradise (1999), was arranged and performed by the Albertan drum corps Allegiance Elite throughout Canada and the United States. Since then, he has had music commissioned and performed by numerous ensembles including the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Francophonie, the Cecilia String Quartet, the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Toronto Philharmonia, the Toronto Concert Orchestra, Via Salzburg, Trio sTREga, Ensemble Paramirabo, the Hannaford Street Silver Band, and the Esprit Orchestra. He collaborates regularly with renowned performing artists such as Conrad Chow (violin) and Rachel Mercer (cello), and his music has been read by a variety of eminent ensembles which include Eighth Blackbird, the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. His orchestral composition Fountain of Dreams was selected as the winner of both the 2005 Mississauga Young Composers' Competition and the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra Composer's Competition in 2008/09. In 2010, he was awarded the Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music for his composition Starsail. | Kevin Lau is active as a composer of contemporary and film music. | ||
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His first complete composition, Empire of Paradise (1999), was arranged and performed by the Albertan drum corps Allegiance Elite throughout Canada and the United States. Since then, he has had music commissioned and performed by numerous ensembles including the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Francophonie, the Cecilia String Quartet, the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Toronto Philharmonia, the Toronto Concert Orchestra, Via Salzburg, Trio sTREga, Ensemble Paramirabo, the Hannaford Street Silver Band, and the Esprit Orchestra. He collaborates regularly with renowned performing artists such as Conrad Chow (violin) and Rachel Mercer (cello), and his music has been read by a variety of eminent ensembles which include Eighth Blackbird, the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. His orchestral composition Fountain of Dreams was selected as the winner of both the 2005 Mississauga Young Composers' Competition and the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra Composer's Competition in 2008/09. In 2010, he was awarded the Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music for his composition Starsail. | |||
Kevin is also active in many other areas of composition. In 2006 he wrote the score to the theatre musical Box Office, which was staged seven times at the Tarragon Theatre as part of the 2006 Toronto Fringe Festival. In 2007 he composed the score for a professional video game for Groove Games based on the movie 300. He has written music for over a dozen films, including the feature documentary UFOs: A Secret History, which aired on the History Channel in 2008. During the same year, he co-wrote (with Canadian composer Ronald Royer) the full-length orchestral score to Gooby, a Canadian children's feature film starring Eugene Levy and Robbie Coltrane. | Kevin is also active in many other areas of composition. In 2006 he wrote the score to the theatre musical Box Office, which was staged seven times at the Tarragon Theatre as part of the 2006 Toronto Fringe Festival. In 2007 he composed the score for a professional video game for Groove Games based on the movie 300. He has written music for over a dozen films, including the feature documentary UFOs: A Secret History, which aired on the History Channel in 2008. During the same year, he co-wrote (with Canadian composer Ronald Royer) the full-length orchestral score to Gooby, a Canadian children's feature film starring Eugene Levy and Robbie Coltrane. | ||