Conductor – Mr. Wilson Lo Pui Kwan

Born in Hong Kong, Willson Lo Pui Kwan was raised in Macau. He took his first piano lesson at the age of six from Helen Chong Mio Wah. Since then, he had won several first prizes in the Macau Youth Music Competition and was awarded the Diploma of the Trinity College London. He was enrolled in the Diploma in Conducting at the University of Hong Kong School of Professional and Continuing Education following Dr. Jerome Hoberman and Prof. Raymond Fu.
Willson has started conducting since school-age and founded the Gregory Male Choir; during which he had also conducted several church choirs and played as an organist. Besides, he had ever conducted a number of school choirs in the Inter-School Singing Competitions and had always been given compliments. He has been an accompanist of the Macao Perosi Choir since 1998 and was awarded ‘The Prize for Excellent Accompaniment’ in the 6th China International Chorus Festival in 2002. He joined the 7th World Symposium on Choral Music in Kyoto, Japan in 2005, where he joined the conducting master class by Masaaki Suzuji and Dan-Olof Stenlund.
Willson plays actively as a pianist, organist and conductor in Macao, Hong Kong and China. In various concerts including the Macao Arts Festival and the Macao International Music Festival, he performed harmoniously with many international soloists and ensembles. He has cooperated and conducted many ensembles such as: The Hong Kong Bach Choir and Orchestra, Hong Kong Methodist College Choir, Macao Chamber Orchestra (formerly the Cultural Institute of Macao), Macao Orchestra, Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra, Coro Perosi, Macau University Choir, Angeles University Choir, Escola do S.S. Rosario Children Choir Salesianos de Dom Bosco Children Choir and many other academic ensembles.
In 2003, Willson was invited to join the Hong Kong Bach Choir and Orchestra as an assistant conductor. During which he has assisted and rehearsed many sets of large-scale chorus and symphony works including Brahms’ German Reqiuem, Bach’s Magnificat in D, the Hong Kong premieres of Tippett’s A child of our time and the world’s premiere of Hong Kong composer Joyce Wai-chung Tang’s Cold Mountain etc. Besides, he conducts the chorus works of J.S. Bach, Edward Elgar, Claudio Monteverdi, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arov Pärt, Górecki and Doming Lam which brought him great success. In 2006, he was commissioned by Macau University to compose an orchestra and choir work “Academic Festival” which was performed by Macau University Choir, Angeles University Choir and Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Willson created the Macao Voices in 2007 and took up the position of Music Director and Chief Conductor. At present he is the member of Royal College of Organists (RCO). Willson has a wide range of interests including, film editing, jazz music, the art of organ building, Chinese folk art and contemporary art.