Gabriel KWOK

Gabriel Kwok was born in Hong Kong and studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Guy Jonson and later with Louis Kentner in London. A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is Visiting Professor at the Shenzhen Arts School, Xian Conservatory of Music, Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Wuhan Conservatory of Music and China Conservatory of Music.

Gabriel Kwok has given master classes internationally and served on the faculty of many institutions, summer schools and festivals. He has been a jury member on many international competitions including the Rome, Vianna da Motta, Gina Bachauer, Hong Kong, China, Hilton Head, Minnesota Piano-e, Darmstadt Chopin, Rio de Janeiro, BNDES, James Mottram, China Shenzhen Piano Concerto, Geneva and Bayreuth-Weimar Liszt International Piano Competitions.

He has collaborated with many distinguished artists in concerts, among whom were Pierre Amoyal, Alexander Ballie, Siegfried Behrend, Alan Civil, Eugene Fodor, Lu Siqing, Albert Markov, Yuri Mazurkevich, Clarence Myerscough, Roberta Peters, Qian Zhou, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jenny Ren, Aaron Rosand, Nathaniel Rosen, Rohan de Saram, Hansjoerg Schellenberger, Denis Shapovalov, Jeffrey Solow, Leon Spierer, Richard Stolzman, Wang Jian and Xue Wei.

Professor Kwok has been Head of Keyboard Studies at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts since 1989. In 2014, Professor Kwok was awarded Medal of Honour from the Hong Kong Government for his contribution to piano education in Hong Kong.

郭 嘉 特

於香港出生,就讀於英國倫敦皇家音樂學院，師事佳鍾遜，其後在倫敦隨路易士堅拿學習。二零零三年被推選為英國皇家音樂學院院士。郭氏現為深圳藝術學校、西安音樂學院、星海音樂學院、武漢音樂學院及中國音樂學院客席教授。郭氏多次被邀請在世界各地著名音樂學府、夏令營、音樂節主持大師班。

他又曾在多項比賽中擔任評審，其中包括意大利羅馬、葡萄牙維納莫特、美國真娜巴侯雅、香港、中國、美國希爾頓島、美國明尼蘇達鋼琴e、德國達姆施塔特蕭邦、巴西BNDES、英國詹姆斯莫特拉姆、中國深圳協奏曲、瑞士日內瓦及德國拜羅伊特-威瑪李斯特國際鋼琴比賽。郭氏經常在音樂會中擔任獨奏和伴奏，與多位著名演奏家合作，其中包括艾莫雅、貝利、貝爾倫、斯維爾、科特、呂思清、馬哥夫、馬沙高維治、米亞斯哥夫、貝特斯、錢舟、雷波爾、任蓉、羅珊德、盧信、杜沙霖、舒倫堡格、沙波瓦洛夫、蘇奧盧、史派拿、史圖斯曼、王健及薛偉。

一九八九年起，郭教授為香演藝學院鍵盤樂系主任。二零一四年獲香港政府頒授榮譽勳章。