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Background |
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Ken, from Vancouver, Canada, is a full-time composer based in Hong Kong. He was one of the band members of Hong Kong's Tangent, overall winners of the 1997 Carlsberg Music Festival. Although Ken played guitar in Tangent and can play several other instruments, his main instrument has always been piano. He has sung and played in jazz and rock bands ever since attending Magee Secondary School, having won several awards and scholarships at both provincial and national music competitions. He's performed at top venues in Hong Kong and Vancouver, and also enjoys composing and arranging, with "Minds Made Up", performed by Tangent, winning "Best Original Song" at the 1997 Carlsberg Music Festival.
Ken has been a full-time musician since May 2000, and has been busy composing and arranging commercial jingles, videos, radio id's and dramas, pop songs, and scoring music for film. He is also an Apple Certified Trainer in Logic Studio 8 and Soundtrack Pro 2.
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Ken has extensive live performance experience, including playing keyboards for Asian artists such as Aaron Kwok, Sammi Cheng, Joey Yung, Elva Siu, Eason Chan, Phil Cheng, Jordan Chan Siu-chun , Jay Chow and Vancouver-based "The Achin' Blues Balls Band". He has also devised tutorial materials and MIDI programming techniques for Digitech Vocalist workstations, and designed and taught keyboard classes at Tom Lee Music in Vancouver.
Prior to becoming a full-time musician, Ken was an Associate Director at Colliers Jardine in Hong Kong and also marketed residential real estate at Ulinder Rennie Project Marketing in Vancouver.

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Gear |
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Contents of Ken's studio follows:
- Computer: Apple Mac Pro 2.8 Quad Core
- Software: Logic Studio 8
- Digital Audio Processors: Apogee Rosetta 800
- Apogee Big Ben
- TC PowerCore
- Tascam DM-3200 Digital Mixer
- FocusRite Producer Pack Pre-Amp
- Mackie Control
- HHB CD-R 850
- Sony 7010 DAT
- Genelec 1030A Active Monitors
- MOTU MTP AV (x2)
- GigaStudio 3.1
- Roland XV88, expanded
- Roland TD-6V Electronic Drums
- Roland Fantom Rack, expanded
- Roland JV1080, expanded
- Korg Triton-Rack, expanded
- Access Virus Rack
- Yamaha Motif Rack
- Akai S6000 Sampler
- E-Mu Mo'Phatt, World and X-treme Lead Sound Modules
- Various guitars and basses, brass, woodwinds and other junk
- and silly amounts of plug-ins / vsti's too numerous to list
Located at Click Music Limited
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