Based in Hong Kong, Lora Chow is an award-winning composer and soprano graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a double major in Music and Economics. She later studied composition with Hollywood composer Christopher Young at the Pulse College Film Scoring Program. Lora has created numerous piano improvisations and has composed a variety of orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo piano music. Her composition “Exsultate, Jubilate for Soprano and Orchestra” was premiered by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 2018 and won the Audience Award. Her orchestral piece “Sympathy” was premiered by the HK Phil in 2019, with her performing the solo voice, piano and harp parts. Her chamber orchestra piece “The Colours of Life” was premiered by the Belilios Chamber Orchestra in 2018. Her “En Voyage for clarinet and piano” and sextet “Sea Waltz” were performed in 2023 and 2017 respectively, by the Yale Alumni Chamber Music Society of Hong Kong. Her orchestral compositions “Maldives” and “The Wedding Gift” were premiered by the Sofia Sinfonietta in Bulgaria in 2016.

As the youngest singer in Yale Schola Cantorum, Lora toured with world-renowned conductors Masaaki Suzuki and Simon Carrington in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. She has also performed various roles in operas, including Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro with the New York Lyric Opera Theatre, Zelatrice in Suor Angelica at Operafestival di Roma, Second Lady in The Magic Flute at the Bethesda Summer Music Festival, Adina (cover) in L’elisir d’amore with Varna State Opera, Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri and Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw with the Opera Theatre of Yale College, and Asdrubale in Scipione Affricano and Speranza in L’Orfeo with the Yale Baroque Opera Project. She has sung in masterclasses by Maestro Helmuth Rilling, soprano Sumi Jo, Camilla Tilling and Anna Shafajinskaia, and studied voice with Olga Makarina, Rao Lan and Janna Baty.

Lora has won many awards, such as the Cole Porter Fellowship in Music and Theater, the Louis Sudler Creative and Performing Arts Award, the Curtis Recital Plate, the Katie Lees Award for Musicianship and the Anita Hewitt-Jones Composition Prize.

Currently, Lora serves as the Soprano Fellow of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus, the Co-Founder of the Yale Alumni Chamber Music Society of Hong Kong, and the Vice-Chairwoman of SingFest. She is also member of CASH and the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild.

作曲家和女高音周曉晴畢業於耶魯大學，主修音樂和經濟，亦曾跟隨荷李活電影作曲家Christopher Young學習。周氏於2018-19與香港管弦樂團擔任獨唱，並首演她的作品《喜悅·歡欣》和《同情》。她的管弦樂作品《馬爾代夫》和《結婚禮物》在2016年由保加利亞的索非亞交響樂團首演。另外，她的二重奏《踏浪尋夢》和六重奏《深海華爾茲》分別在2023年和2017年的耶魯大學香港室樂社音樂會首演。

周氏曾是Yale Schola Cantorum最年輕的成員，隨著名指揮鈴木雅明和Simon Carrington到歐美和亞洲演出。她曾參與眾多歌劇演出，包括跟紐約抒情歌劇團飾演莫札特《費加羅的婚禮》的侍童凱魯比諾，在羅馬歌劇節飾演普契尼《修女安潔莉卡》中的教引嬤嬤，在耶魯歌劇團飾演羅西尼《阿爾及利亞的意大利女郎》的主角和布烈頓《碧廬冤孽》中的管家格羅絲太太，和在貝塞斯達音樂節飾演莫扎特《魔笛》中的第二侍女等。

周氏榮獲多個獎項，包括Cole Porter音樂與戲劇獎學金、Louis Sudler創意與表演藝術獎、Curtis獨奏獎、Edwina Hart歌唱大獎和Anita Hewitt-Jones作曲大獎。她師隨大都會歌劇院的女高音Olga Makarina、女高音饒嵐和女中音Janna Baty，亦上過著名女高音曹秀美、Camilla Tilling、Anna Shafajinskaia 和 Maestro Helmuth Rilling的大師班。

周氏是耶魯大學香港室樂社的創辦人之一，常到各慈善機構演出。她現擔任聲蜚合唱節的副主席和香港管弦樂團合唱團的女高音，也是香港作曲家及作詞家協會和香港作曲家聯會的會員。