Mak Wai Chu

Clarence Mak was born in Hong Kong and graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Pennsylvania State University in USA, where he studied guitar, electronic music and composition. He returned to Hong Kong after receiving his Master’s degree and worked as a freelance composer, giving talks and workshops on creative music-making in tertiary institutes and arts organizations. Since joining the School of Music of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, he has been teaching Composition, Electronic Music and Theory. Mak received classical guitar training in Spain, and studied music programming and acoustics at the Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He was a Visiting Artist at the Conservatory of Music and Dance of the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and taught the International Summer Course in Monthureux Le Sec in France. He founded the Academy Electronic Music Studio in Hong Kong in 1990.