Samson Young
	Hong Kong-born Samson Young studied music and philosophy at the University of Sydney, after which he went on to obtain his Masters degree in composition at the University of Hong Kong under the guidance of Chan Hing-yan. Since 2005, he has lived and worked the in New York City, while pursuing a Doctorate degree in composition at Princeton University under the guidance of electronic music pioneer Paul Lansky. In addition, he has studied privately and in masterclasses with some of the most influential composers of our time, including George Crumb, Toshio Hosokawa, Helmut Lachenmann and Steve Reich, among others. Samson Young is the recipient of multiple local and international scholarships and awards. In 2007, he became the first Hong Kong artist to receive the "Bloomberg Emerging Artist" Award. Since early 2000, Samson Young has collaborated with artists from a wide range of disciplines including video art, contemporary dance, installation art and poetry. He has been the co-director of multi-disciplinary artist collective EmergencyLab since 2004. Informed by this cross-disciplinary exposure, Young's compositions are marked by their consistent use of multi-media and new technology as a means of enriching the concert hall experience. His creative output has been presented in such festivals as the Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music (Australia 2001) and Canberra International Music Festival (Australia 2008), Bowdoin International Music Festival (US 2004) and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Bang on a Can Music Festival (US 2005), Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (Germany 2006), Dark Music Days Contemporary Music Festival (Iceland 2008), Microwave International New Media Arts Festival (HK 2004) and October Contemporary (HK 2007). His compositions have been performed and commissioned by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Bang on a Can and Summer Institute Fellows, Network for New Music, New Millennium Ensemble, So Percussion, Sydney Song Company and Grenzenlos, among others. Samson Young is Hong Kong Sinfonietta's Artist Associate for the 2008/2009 season, a collaboration that will result in several new compositions for the orchestra. Other upcoming projects in 2008 include a new chamber opera about the Queen's Pier presented by the LCSD and a multi-media music theatre project about video gaming. In addition, Young's orchestral work Feathery Telegraph, composed for the Hong Kong Sinfonietta in 2005, is scheduled for release under SCI's Capstone Records in the second half of 2008. More information on Samson Young is available at www.samsonyoung.com.