Prof. Frederick LAU (USA)
Chair, Department of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Frederick LAU is an ethnomusicologist whose scholarly interests include a broad range of topics in Chinese, Western, and Asian music and cultures. He has appeared as a flute soloist, recitalist, and conductor throughout Europe, Asia, and the US. He has earned a reputation for his expressive style and interpretation of the baroque and avant-garde repertory. LAU is an active chamber and orchestral musician and served as music director of the SLO Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Cal Poly Chamber Orchestra in California. He holds an advanced performance diploma from the Royal Schools of Music and London Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied flute with Trevor Wye, Kate Lucas, and Stephen Preston on a full scholarship. In addition, he also studied extensively with Alexander Murray, William Bennett, Harvey Sollberger, Peter Lukas-Graf, and Julius Baker.

As a scholar and researcher, LAU has received awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, D.A.A.D. Academic Exchange, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is author of Music in China (Oxford University Press) and co-editor of Making Waves: Traveling Musics in Asia and the Pacific (University of Hawaii Press), Vocal Music and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Music: Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West (Routledge), Locating East Asia in Western Art Music (Wesleyan University Press). Besides publishing numerous articles and essays in various scholarly journals, he is the editor of the book series “Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific,” University of Hawaii Press. He is currently chair of Music, Professor of Ethnomusicology, and director of the Center for Chinese Music Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to teaching in Hong Kong, he was Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and California Polytechnic State University.