Meilina Tsui Mei-ling

Meilina Tsui (b. 1993) is an award-winning composer, pianist, singer-songwriter, and radio producer and presenter, born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, raised and based in Hong Kong. She earned her B.A. (Music) with First Class Honours from the Chinese University of Hong Kong under the Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarship and M.Mus. (Composition) with Distinction from King’s College London under the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme. Her music has been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Bashkortostan (Russia), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Romer String Quartet (HK), Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble (HK), Lontano Ensemble (UK), Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble (UK), Nancy Loo & Mary Wu Piano Duo (HK), Quartetto Indaco (Italy), among others, and broadcast by the London arts radio "Resonance fm" and RTHK Radio 4. International festivals that have featured her work include ACL (Vietnam), highSCORE Festival (Italy), Asia-Europe New Music Festival (Russia), and All-Russian Young Composers Festival (Russia). In celebration of HKSAR’s 20th anniversary in 2017, she was the youngest and only female composer featured at the London “HK Music Series.” Most recently, she has been selected as a Composer Fellow at the 2018 International Festival “Intimacy of Creativity.” Meilina has received commissions from the HK Government, HK Phil, CUHK Art Museum and HK Composers Guild.