Prize-winning Loo Sze-wang is a foremost sheng (Chinese mouth-organ) player of his generation in Hong Kong. Equally active as soloist and chamber musician, Loo has appeared as the featured artist multiple times at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Musicarama and Radio Television Hong Kong. His performances have been heard in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, United States, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Singapore, Korea and China.
Loo has been a frequent collaborator with contemporary composers. He has 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” organized by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble was held in 2023.
In 2024, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Notre Dame in the US jointly invited Loo and violin virtuoso Patrick Yim to perform two concerts of 5 new commission works and record them for an album this year. This past April, the University of Hawaii appointed Loo as the Artist-in-Residence, debuting compositions on campus. Nov the same year, Loo worked with HK Sinfonietta again, premiering Double concerto with the Didgeridoo player William Barton.
Loo co-founded Chinese Music Virtuosi, a 6-member Chinese instrumental ensemble, 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.
Apart from performing, Loo also composed for the Sheng. His work “Edge” was included in the collection “Sheng – featured works”, published by Taiwan Chinese Orchestra in 2021.
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 had also taken flute lessons with Timothy Wilson and Chan Kwok-chiu.