Brian is an experienced orchestral player, chamber musician, and teacher. He has performed with The Hallé, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Sinonietta, the Macau Orchestra, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Winds Philharmonic. With the orchestra, he has performed extensively throughout Europe and Asia. He has worked with a number of maestri, for example Lorin Maazel, Edo de Waart, Gianandrea Noseda, Markus Stenz and François-Xavier Roth, to name a few.
As a devoted educator, he is currently the faculty at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Education University of Hong Kong. Under his tutelage, his students have been accepted by conservatoires worldwide, for instance, The Juilliard School, the Eastman School of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, The Royal College of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Trinity College of music, the Utrechts Conservatorium, the Royal Holloway, University of London, the “Alfred Cortot”, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the Baptist University of Hong Kong, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Brian started his studies with Joni Wong. Subsequently, he gained a BMus (Hons) from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. During his time at the HKAPA, he won the Academy Concerto Competition. He was selected to play with the Asian Youth Orchestra and the International Youth Wind Orchestra. Additionally, he performed as soloist with various ensembles in Hong Kong.
After graduating from the HKAPA, Brian was awarded a full scholarship by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund for his postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied with Laura Jellicoe, Joanne Boddington, and Peter Lloyd. He graduated with Distinction in 2010. He was selected as the principal flute player to participate in the Fondazione Cantiere Internazionale D’Arte Di Montepulciano in Italy.
To further his playing, Brian has also been studying with Rachel Brown, Julien Beaudiment, Sébastian Jacot, Natalie Schwaabe, Walter Auer, Patricia Morris, Dunscade Wolfsang, Egor Egorkin, Pierre Dumais, Vincent Cortvrint, Nicola Mazzanti, Virginie Reibel, Jean-Louis Beaumadier, Michel Bellavance, and Herman van Kogelenberg.”