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Charles Kwong is a composer from Hong Kong whose practice approaches music as collective experiential situations - both within and beyond listening. His creative output spans orchestral music, collaborations with performers across diverse musical cultures, site-specific and transdisciplinary projects departing from the concert paradigm, and the exploration of performative possibilities in electronic sound synthesis.

Rituals, fictionality, chaotic systems, nonhuman temporality, social ordering in performances, and intertextuality and hauntology arising from classical forms are some recurring core preoccupations that often shapes his creative process and agenda across different media.

Kwong’s music has been featured internationally at prestigious festivals such as Lucerne Forward, Ultraschall Berlin, Takefu International Music Festival, Ticino Musica, Festival International de Piano La Roque d’Anthéron, Marvão International Music Festival, and ManiFeste, among others. Recent commissioners include the Lucerne Festival, Takefu International Music Festival, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Ensemble Recherche, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HKNME), Tai Kwun Contemporary, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival.

Kwong was Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s Artist Associate in 2020-2022, an invited composer at the Takefu International Music Festival in both 2018 and 2025, and undertook artist residencies at PF25 cultural projects Basel (2026), Initiative Freie Musikszene Zürich (2024), the Zurich University of the Arts Transdisciplinary Studies (2020), and Tai Kwun Contemporary (2020).

Born in Hong Kong in 1985, Kwong studied music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and King’s College London, before earning his doctorate in Composition from the University of York in 2013 under the supervision of Thomas Simaku. His artistic development has also benefited significantly through the tutelages of Toshio Hosokawa, Isabel Mundry, Francesco Filidei, Mauro Lanza and Oscar Bianchi, among others.

Kwong co-founded PROJECT21st with Sharon Chan in 2019, where he serves as co-director, masterminding multiple translocal and transdisciplinary artistic initiatives over the years. Since 2018, he has been an affiliated faculty member at the University of Hong Kong’s Music Department, where he currently teaches and mentors postgraduate modules in composition and sound art. Currently he splits his time between Zurich and Hong Kong

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