ESTHER WONG

Esther Dorcas Y.W. Wong, a composer, arranger, music teacher, music therapist and a traveler. Inspired by music around the world and all her travelling experiences, her style of music blends the modern with the traditional. From orchestral, instrumental, electronica, ambient to world fusion. Recently pursued the path of becoming a music therapist, using music to impact people’s lives.

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Born in Hong Kong, Esther grew up with the western classical music by beginning piano lesson at the age of six. Her passion of music ignited during her high school years when she moved to New Zealand. Trained in and graduated from University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2009, she has gained a Bachelor of Music degree majoring in composition. Since then, she has worked as a freelance sound designer, arranger and orchestrator for games and soundtrack for various entertainment companies. She has also worked as a piano and guitar tutor in primary schools and music schools in New Zealand and Hong Kong.

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In 2011, while working as a full time sound designer. Esther has released her debut album ‘Infusion’, experimental in nature, the album showcases years of musical influences. From the traditional world music studies as well as experimental art music influences during her university years to her own exploration of sound designs and the world of electronica. The album features a mixture of ambient, chill-out and her first exploration of world fusion style.

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2012 saw the release of ‘Streams for the Desert Journey’, ambient and narrative in style. The music explores compositional techniques based on narrative, with the choice of pitches, chord progressions, instrumentations specifically composed to reflect idea and story behind each track.
Esther has collaborated with visual artists for two art exhibitions in Belgium, using this album as a backdrop for the exhibitions with similar theme of the album. The track ‘Living Water’ took part as a collaborative art exhibition with a Hong Kong visual artist in The Vine Church, HK.

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With further exploration into the world of electronica and world music, in 2015, Esther has released her third album ‘Sounds of Freedom’. A mature style built upon her debut album, the album explores a musical world without restrictions, blending the traditional and the modern, the familiar and the strange. With traditional instruments around the world as well as modern synthesizers and electronic instruments creating a unique soundscape of cross culture fusion.

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Inspired by her recent globetrotting experiences, in 2015 October she has released her latest album ‘Postcards’, a collection of fourteen musical impressions of six different countries. Derived from Franz Liszt’s symphonic poems, this album is the slightly modernized version featuring both orchestral and world fusion tracks in which the music attempts to evoke scenes, imageries, moods and landscape.

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Parallel to her career as a composer and arranger, Esther has recently embarked on a new direction as a registered music therapist (UK, HCPC). In her years of working as a musician, she recognized the power and impact of music, indeed music is so much more than entertainment and personal expression. The desire of using music to significantly impact people’s lives has led her into the completion of the postgraduate diploma in music therapy at the University of Hong Kong (HKUSPACE) and her recent Master of Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. She has worked as a music therapist with children and adults in various hospitals and centers in Hong Kong and United Kingdom, using music to improve social, emotional, cognitive and physical needs of individuals.

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…a life of music to be continued….