Our Team

Founder & Director of Art Administration 
​Lin Ka Chun 

Lin Ka Chun is the Founder of and Director of Arts Administration for Men of Winds. He graduated from the University of Otago in New Zealand, majoring in Politics and Asian Studies, and earned a Master of Arts in Cultural Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He holds a Licentiate Diploma of the St. Cecilia School of Music and The Australian Society of Musicology and Composition in research and musicology. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Pegaso International. He is also active in performing at band and orchestra as a flutist and piccoloist.

He started his art administration career as an Education and Outreach officer in Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 2013. He worked in ELCHK Men in Jazz as an orchestra manager between 2015 -2019. Under his leadership, the ELCHK Men in Jazz Music Project was awarded the Hong Kong Arts Development Award 2018 for Arts Education for the non-school category.
Lin has a particular interest in music and wind band history, cultural policy in music and arts development, and senior citizen arts development.

He has been awarded a research grant on Thematic Research on Hong Kong Music Development by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, covering Hong Kong band history and development.
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He published four articles about Hong Kong wind band history in a leading Japanese wind band magazine, – PIPERS. He also published an academic paper about senior art at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Conductor
Yip Yuk Chuen, Bill ​

Bill YIP is an active trumpeter in Hong Kong. Bill's music training began at the age of 11, when he started the trumpet under his secondary school band- St. Bonaventure College & High School. Since then, he has enjoyed performances with the St. Bonaventure College & High School band in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has participated with the Hong Kong Symphonic Winds (HKSW) over than 30 outdoor and indoor performances. In addition, Bill had lessons with international acclaimed trumpeter Mr. James THOMPSON. Bill finished his Bachelor of Art in Music Studies (Honours) at Hong Kong Baptist University, with first class honour under the guidance of Mr. Ka Hing FUNG.
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Bill has been the conductor at The Hong Kong Symphonic Winds, mainly responsible for outreach programme, to promote wind band music.