We are delighted to share the latest achievements of our Grade 9 student Michelle Kwong.
"My Voice – Your Score", the song Michelle wrote at thirteen, with lyric, melody and voice all her own, has had quite a year. She premiered it herself at Freespace in the West Kowloon Cultural District in January, where it was a prizewinner in the composition stream of the first Hong Kong MusicalCon 2026 and she was the youngest composer in the field. Within three months she had sung it with full orchestra twice, accompanied by the Hong Kong Youth Orchestra at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and by the Inheritage Philharmonic Orchestra at Hong Kong City Hall. In July it took First Prize with Special Mention in Composition at the BACH International Music Competition, and in August it was named a Platinum Winner in Composition at the 8th Fenix Award International Music Competition.
Now the song has faced a different kind of test. The Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH), the professional body of Hong Kong's songwriters, has confirmed that Michelle's nominated work has passed the review of its Awards Consultation Committee, a panel of CASH directors, veteran music critics and a veteran scholar. The song has been entered in two categories of the CASH Golden Sail Music Awards 2027: "CASH Best Song" and "Best Young Composer's Serious Composition". To be accepted by a panel of that calibre, and to be listed alongside works by Hong Kong's professional singers, lyricists and composers, is already an honour. At fourteen, Michelle is among the youngest composers in the city to have a work accepted by CASH, and it is a work she wrote, composed and performs herself.
We congratulate her on each of these achievements and wish her every success at the Golden Sail Music Awards and in the music still to come.
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