KINGMAN LO

Director of Administration

　　Kingman Lo's ancestral origin is from Pauyu in Guangdong Province of China. Born in Hong Kong and educated at the Diocesan Boys' School, he graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong , and was awarded an Italian Government Scholarship to study at the University of Rome . He later undertook training in stage design and direction in the opera theatres of Rome , Naples and Perugia .

　　Kingman Lo was invited by the University of Hong Kong to take up a senior academic administrative position in the mid-1960s. He then became the first Academic Secretary of the newly established Hong Kong Polytechnic, where he was promoted to be Deputy Director in 1986. He assumed the Directorship of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1993. The Academy comprises five professional schools in music, dance, drama, film and television, and theatre technical arts. Professor Lo managed and developed it into a world-renowned institution before he retired as Director in August 2004.

　　Kingman Lo is an extremely active practitioner in the field of performing arts. He has written, directed and designed extensively for the stage with over 150 productions of drama, opera and dance to his credit. His major efforts in the past two decades have been devoted to western opera, of which some 50 works have been staged in southeast Asia and a number of cities of China including Beijing , Shanghai , Taipei and Hong Kong .

　　Professor Lo has an extensive record of public service on many policy-making authorities in Hong Kong , especially those concerned with arts and culture. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Sinfonietta orchestras, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, the Fringe Festival and the Arts Centre. Appointed member of the Urban Council in 1984, he was its Chairman of Culture and then Vice Chairman of Council for five years until 1995. He served on the Basic Law Consultative Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region during 1985-1990.

　　In recognition of his contribution to international arts and cultural developments, Kingman Lo has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts of Britain, Honorary Fellow of the University of Hong Kong , University Fellow of the Hong Kong Polytechnic

　　University, Honorary Professor of the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, and awarded the title of Cavaliere of the Order of Merit by the Republic of Italy, Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the French Republic, Member of the Order of the British Empire and Justice of the Peace by the Hong Kong Government.