Lo Tsz To (Toto) is a composer and pianist from Hong Kong. He completed his Master’s degree in Music Composition at the University of Oxford, supported by the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme. Prior to that, he studied composition at Hong Kong Baptist University, where he was awarded the Scholarship for Outstanding Performance from the HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund.

In 2024, Toto collaborated with a visual artist and writer Valerie Asiimwe Amani on the art film Language of Eternal Hauntedness, showcased at Fusion Arts FOCUS during the inaugural DEPOT event in Oxford. That same year, he began New Hybrids, an art film and music concert combining electronics and piano performance with the film, presented at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College.

During Toto’s studies at Oxford, his 30-minute piano improvisation Sand & Sea was performed at the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College. His compositions have been performed by the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, and his song was showcased by Oxford Song Young Artist Jonathan Eyers and pianist Thomas Eeckhout during the Oxford International Song Festival. His piano sextet Stars premiered at the Holywell Music Room, and other solo piano works were performed by pianist David Palmer.

Toto’s string quartet Bat, Beasts and Birds was a finalist entry in the New Generation 2023 Competition, performed by the Romer Quartet at Radio Television Hong Kong. His trio Hexagonal Buzzing was presented by the Red Note Ensemble in The Glad Cafe at Glasgow, and his electroacoustic work From Jekyll to Hyde was diffused at Audio Mostly 2022 at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria. His music has also been recorded by acclaimed musicians, including organist Ulla Krigul, Berliner Philharmoniker flautist Egor Egorkin, and harpist Olivia Jageurs.

Toto is passionate about opera and has served as a répétiteur for the Oxford Opera Society, performing in In Her Place in May 2024. As a piano accompanist, he has worked with the Oxford Singers, the Wolfson Choir, the United College Choir (CUHK), and the Carol Bateman School of Dancing.

As a choral performer, he has sung with the St Hilda’s College Choir in Mozart Requiem at the University Church, and with the Oxford University Chorus in Mahler Symphony No. 2 at the Sheldonian Theatre.

He participated in the Thirteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, joining the Mentored Undergraduate Research Challenge: Human-Aware AI in Sound and Music.

As a stage performer, Toto has taken part in numerous productions, including the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Palazzetto Bru Zane (Carmen), American Ballet Theatre (Whipped Cream), Teatro Regio Torino (Simon Boccanegra), Bayerisches Staatsballett (La Bayadère), Ballett Zürich (Anna Karenina), and several productions with Opera Hong Kong, such as Turandot and Aida.