Leung Kin Fung
Leung Kin Fung received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in Hong Kong 2002. Leung was the first Hong Kong musician to win first prize at the 1992 Young Artist Competition in New York. He also won the second prize at the Primrose International Viola Competition in 1991. In 2015, Leung was awarded “Artist of the Year (Music)” in the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2014 by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
Since 2000, Leung has been the First Associate Concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and also served on the faculty of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2014 and 2016, Leung was appointed Performing Art Director of Diocesan Girls’ School and Artistic Director and Conductor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Orchestra. Since 2017, Leung has been the program director of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macau-Taiwan Youth Cultural Exchange Festival. In 2019, Leung became the music director of the Hong Kong Orchestra and Hong Kong Youth Orchestra. In 2022, Leung was conferred University Fellowship by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and became the representative of arts interest (Music) and council member and chairman of music for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.