Hong Kong composer Tung Lai Shing is among the first generation of graduates from the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the 70s. He went on to pursue his study in composition at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with George Crumb and obtained his PhD. His major compositions include the Book of Laughter and Forgetting for symphonic orchestra and Cantonese Opera singer, commissioned and premiered by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta.

香港作曲家董麗誠為1970年代香港中文大學音樂系第一代畢業學生之一。其後赴笈美國賓歹凡尼亞大學繼續進修作曲，在喬治．克拉姆的指導下完成作曲（哲學）博士課程。其主要作品包括由香港小交響樂團委約、為管弦樂團及粵劇演員而寫的《笑忘書》。