Ng King-pan is active in the classical and pop music industry, playing the multiple roles as composer, arranger, performer, conductor, music director and band leader. In recent years, he plays an active role in composing for the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and other orchestras in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Since childhood, Ng has been learning erhu, piano and violin, and was benefited from the cultivation of the Music Office (under the Hong Kong government) and various troupes and Chinese and Western orchestras. Ng began to arrange music in his adolescence.
Ng pursued his studies at Musikhogskolan i Piteå in Sweden and the University of Hong Kong, his mentors included Wong Chi-chung, Chan Man-chong, Brenton Broadstock, Julian Yu, Jan Ferm and Chan Hing-yan. His compositions had won him multiple international awards, including the 3MBS Reading Australian National Composer Award in 2002. He has been a keyboardist and arranger for major pop concerts and pop recordings since 2005, having appeared in hundreds of pop concerts in Mainland China and other parts of the world. In 2014, Ng completed his doctoral dissertation which focused on composing for Chinese instrumental ensemble.
Some of Ng’s notable performances and compositions in recent years include: composing and producing an MV series on the theme of traditional festivals for the Hong Kong Chinese orchestra since 2020, titled Dragon Phoenix, Moon Chaser, Dragon Boat and Autumn Silhouette, the online views have passed the ten million mark. In April 2018, he was the sole arranger and conductor for Jeff Chang’s live concert at the Beijing Concert Hall with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. In 2017, he arranged and conducted the record production of the cello concerto album, Cello Loves Disney by young cellist, Nana Ou-Yang and the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Between 2011 and 2020, he was music director of the National Day variety show in Hong Kong. In 2012, Ng collaborated with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra to produce a multi-media concert ‘Winter Solstice · Farewell To The Sun’.
