Joyce Wai-chung Tang’s compositions have been praised by Ablaze Records as “incisive and brilliant … a fresh compositional voice,” and have been performed globally.  Her works span orchestral, chamber, solo, vocal, choral, electro-acoustic, and theatrical genres, many of which have been jury-selected and featured in major festivals and conferences such as the Hong Kong Arts Festivals, International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) festivals, Canberra International Music Festival, Asian Composers’ League Conferences and Festivals, International Rostrum of Composers, Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC), Deutschlandfunk Forum Neuer Musik, Ibiza International Music Festival, Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival, International Computer Music Conferences (ICMC), Journées d'Informatique Musicale (JIM), Le French May festivals, and Manhattan-Hong Kong Music Festival.

She has received numerous commissions from various artists and performing groups, including Hong Kong Arts Festival, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Romer String Quartet and Cong Quartet, Hong Kong Bach Choir & Orchestra, Trio Morisot, Western District Music Ensemble, Hong Kong Plucked String Chinese Orchestra, Korean Traditional Performing Arts Foundation, The University of Hong Kong, HKU Gamelan, Contemporary Musiking, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Collegium Musicum Hong Kong, AFTEC, pianist Mary Wu, sheng performer Loo Sze Wang, and percussionist Thierry Miroglio.

 

In 2025, she was a featured composer at the Musiciennes à Paris 13 Festival. Her recent multimedia work, Since When (2023), co-created with Chow Yiu Fai, won the 2023 CASH Golden Sail Best Serious Composition Award. Other recent compositions include The Shards of a Star- Spica (2025) for percussion, Points of Intersection (2024) for sheng and violin, Chasing Shadows (2024) for two violas, and Iris of Life (2024) for mixed choir and orchestra.

 

Notable work include Blaze (2019) for the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Remembrance of the Stonewall Trees (2017) which was featured at the Canberra International Music Festival in May 2017, in time of daffodils (2016), and Clear Light (2015), premiered by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta under Yip Wing-sie at the Hong Kong Arts Festival in March 2015. Clear Light received its European premieres on tour by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta in Geneva, Zürich and Fribourg in October 2015. Additionally, her string quartet Lineae (2014), created for dancers, won the Arizona Pro Arte Ensemble 2015 Call For Scores award.

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Tang’s music were published on several CDs, including the "Fleeting Realms" on Navona Records, "Orchestral Masters Series Vol. 1" and "Millennial Masters Series Vol. 2" on Ablaze Records.

 

Joyce Tang was awarded an Asian Cultural Council fellowship in 2017 and holds a PhD in musicology from The University of Hong Kong. She is currently a faculty at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, with her scores are published by BabelScores.