Loo Sze-wang is a prize-winning and the foremost sheng (Chinese mouth-organ) virtuoso of his generation in Hong Kong, championing both traditional and contemporary repertoires. Equally active as soloist and chamber musician, he has been featured several times at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the contemporary music festival Musicarama and Radio Television Hong Kong. His performances have been heard in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the USA, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Singapore, Korea and China.
Frequently collaborating with contemporary composers, Loo performed in Chan Hing-yan’s chamber opera Heart of Coral during Hong Kong Week 2014 in Taipei, Law Wing-fai’s music theatre When Petals Fall in Serenity, and Samson Young’s The Anatomy of Musician in Paris. In the 2012/2013 season, Loo was Artist Associate of Hong Kong Sinfonietta and toured with the orchestra in North America. He gave the world première of Chan Hing-yan’s Hark the Phoenix Solitaire Cry with Orchestra UniMi in Milan under the baton of Yip Wing-sie in 2016, and Hong Kong Odyssey commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival the following year. His solo recital “Listen to the Sphinx”, organised by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, was held in 2023.
In 2024, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Notre Dame in the USA jointly invited Loo and violinist Patrick Yim to perform two concerts of five newly commissioned works, and record them for an album. The University of Hawaii appointed Loo as Artist-in-Residence in the same year, debuting compositions on campus. He also gave a solo recital in the Chamber Resonance series organised by RTHK Radio 4. In November, Loo will work with conductor Luke Dollman again in Adelaide to perform the world première of the sheng concerto Mountains, Clouds, Streams by Stephen Whittington.
Loo co-founded Chinese Music Virtuosi, a Chinese instrumental ensemble of six players, with the aim to promote traditional and contemporary Chinese music. They were Ensemble-in-Residence of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011/2012.
A graduate of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Loo received tutelage from Chen De-ren and Cheng Tak-wai. He also took flute lessons with Timothy Wilson and Chan Kwok-chiu.
