Conductors and Tutors

Conductors and Tutors


盧悅穎 Joyce Lo

 

Joyce Lo obtained her Bachelor Degree in Arts in Music Composition and Master Degree in Visual Arts in Art Administration from the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). She began learning handbell with Ms. Emily Li during her undergraduate studies and soon joined HKBU Handbell Choir as a ringer and committee member. Lo performed extensively and also organized various performances which laid the foundation for her future development in handbell music. Joyce then joined Gloves Handbell in 2007 and actively performed on both local and overseas stages. In 2015, Lo became the conductor and is currently the chairperson of Gloves.

Joyce actively engaged in music education and promotion of handbell into the musical mainstream. She became Hong Kong Handbell Academy (HKHA) tutor in 2006, and had been conductor of handbell teams from local primary and secondary schools. She led the teams to different performances and had been awarded several times in previous Hong Kong Handbell Festival (HKHF) School Handbell Competitions, aimed at inspiring students' artistic creativity and teamwork through music. Lo is currently the conductor of Belltastic (HKHA's Adult Handbell Ensemble) and the tutor of the Senior Adult Handbell Course, where she keeps sharing her beliefs and ideas to school teachers and amateur ringers, and to popularize handbell education in Hong Kong.

Since 2009, Joyce committed her passions of handbell education by contributing to the Hong Kong Youth Handbell Ensemble (HKYHE) as the conductor, and took part in the role of performances planning for numerous titled concerts and guest performances with various themes and formats in every season. As one of the highly praised youth music ensembles, HKYHE has been frequently invited to share their excellent performances in local performance venues, community centres and popular festival events, and their music footprints are all over the world from the past decades. In 2023, 2024 and 2026, Lo has respectively led the ensemble to represent Hong Kong by participating in the 13th National Residential Ringing Week in Sheffield, U.K., the 21st and 22nd International Handbell Symposium (IHS) in Hamamatsu, Japan and in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Joyce was one of the HKHF Massed Ring conductors in 2009 and 2010, and her teams were often invited as guest performing groups in the Festival. As an acclaimed and experienced handbell educator and conductor, Lo has recently been invited to be overseas adjudicator of the Singapore Youth Festival 2025 and 2026 Arts Presentation (Handbell/ Handchime). In August 2026, Joyce is invited by the Handbell Association of Hong Kong to be one of the Massed Ringing conductors of the 22nd IHS (Aberdeen, Scotland), and under her baton, Lo keeps on further promoting the unique and original repertoire by Hong Kong composer to all handbell ringers, conductors and enthusiasts around the globe.


張佩霞 Peony Cheung

 

Peony Cheung graduated from Hong Kong Institute of Education with Certificate in Primary Education and Bachelor of Education (Honours), majoring in Chinese and Music. She has followed Ms. Emily Li to learn handbell and achieved Certificate of Handbell Advanced Course and Certificate of Handbell Teacher Training Course.

In the past years, she has participated various competitions and events like Echoes for Peace concert during the 14th International Handbell Symposium in Osaka, Japan, the 4th Hong Kong Handbell Festival, Yuen Long Art Festival, TVB program, etc. In particular, she has been to Orlando, Florida to join The 13th International Handbell Symposium and National Seminar.

Peony was a massed conductor for the 7th Hong Kong Handbell Festival concert in 2012. Now, she is leading various handbell, handchime, belleplate teams in primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong. She is also running handbell workshops and helping students to form handbell teams to join inter-school competitions in Hong Kong every year and the results are always remarkable.

伍玉妍 Purdy Ng

Purdy obtained her degree in Early Childhood Education in LiPACE and acquired grade 8 piano from ABRSM. She learned handbell ringing from Miss Emily Li and started teaching handbell in 2014.

As a former member of “The Clappers”, Purdy actively participated in different handbell performances. She is currently a conductor in different school handbell ensembles, leading the team to various performances and competitions.



張元軒 Yundi Cheung

Yundi Cheung obtained his Master of Arts in Music degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and has obtained a Grade 8 in Piano, Flute, Percussion and Theory from the Royal College of Music. He has also been studying Organ with Mr. Gary Tong since 2020, and has studied Handbell Conducting, and Choral and Orchestral Conducting with Ms. Emily Li and Ms. Vivian Ip respectively. He has participated in different concerts and is active in music education. He has been a pianist and conductor in annual concerts at various schools, In 2023, he graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a major in Quantitative Finance and Minor in Music.

Yundi has been learning Colorbells and Belleplates since 2004 and joined the Hong Kong Handbell Academy in 2009, ringing under the baton of Ms. Emily Li. Other than participating in annual concerts, he also frequently travels abroad to perform and exchange, including the 16th and 20th International Handbell Symposium in Vancouver, Canada in 2016 and Nashville, USA in 2022, and the Kagoshima Asian Youth Festival in Kagoshima, Japan in 2017. He also participated in a concert tour to Finland and Estonia in 2019. He joined the advance ringing event “Distinctly Bronze” organized by the Handbell Musicians of America in 2024, ringing under the baton of Mr. Fred Gramann along advanced ringers around the world.

In 2021, he became a tutor of the Hong Kong Handbell Academy. He is currently serving as a conductor for the Hong Kong Youth Handbell Ensemble and the tutor of Adult Handbell Courses


蕭芷欣 Fion Siu