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IVP Official | IVP Facebook Lectures & Talks | Reviews | IMDB AFFILIATION > Music Authors' Copyright Protection > Public Performance Malaysia > Recording Performers Malaysia > Warner Chappell Malaysia > ASCAP (USA) > Society of Composers & Lyricists (USA) > Audio Engineering Society (Malaysia) > Society of Malaysian Contemporary Composers EXPERTISE Compose, Orchestrate, Arrange, Produce AREA OF STUDY & SKILLS Orchestration & Instrumentation Tonal Harmony & Composition Music Arrangement & Producing Film Scoring & Video Games Music Music Technology & Studio Production Electronic Music & Softwares SOFTWARES Logic Pro, Pro tools, Reason, Ableton, Final Cut, Sibelius, Finale, Soundtrack Pro, Garage Band, Cubase, Sonar FAVORITE TOOLS FOR MUSIC MAKING Pencil & manuscript, piano, recorder, my trombone, evernote, iRigs keys on Logic, kitchenware, etc FAVORITE ACTIVITY Scribbling, dreaming, movies, basketball, collecting junk... PERSONAL MOTTO “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup” ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven “A good composer does not imitate; he steals” ~ Igor Stravinsky “You know what you know = You don’t know what you don’t know” ~ Alice Huang |
Ken Hor, a veteran composer who has been proving his worth, showing great flexibility in composing a wide range of styles. Despite being a classically trained composer, he has his fair share of work among a wide variety of musical genres. His contemporary-ethnic showcase entitled “Let’s Go Mamak!” had phenomenally swept 4 BOH Cameronian Awards. Ken pursued a degree in Music Technology and Composition from University Putra Malaysia, while at the same time working his way up from a studio guy in a post-production house to become an arranger in various types of productions eventually. In 2004, Ken journeyed to California to study Film Scoring at the University of California Los Angeles and worked as an assistant under veteran composer William Goldstein. Besides commercial albums and jingles in Los Angeles, Ken’s works were also heard in several film festivals in the States. Since returning home in 2008, Ken has delivered intense scores for various productions together with his business partner Lo Shi Seng and a group of A-list musicians under the name of Inner Voices Productions, including Syafiq Yusof's last three box-office films “Misteri Dilaila”, “KL Special Force”, and “Abang Long Fadil 2”, award-winning Yeo Joon Han’s “In The Dark 怨鬼”, rising director Tan Seng Kiat, animated comedy series “Astrolology”, Disney Asia TV series "Harry and Bunnie”, prestige indie album “Platform 11 十一号月台”, AIM winner rock band Mad August, Sheila Majid and her beloved husband Acis, YuHeng 宇珩, Kaka Azraff, and a few dozens of TV Commercials. Besides commercial productions, Ken‘s been writing concert-hall music regularly and has collaborated with Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and his youth orchestra, Malaysia National Symphony Orchestra, Orkestra Tradisional Malaysia, “Young Malaysians Go Classic” festival, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Young KL Singers, etc. Ken is also a dedicated lecturer giving lectures and workshops at local universities in Malaysia for the past 12 years, focusing on film scoring, jingle writing, orchestration, and music arrangement. In early 2020, Ken won the AIM Best Album Award for Bossa Princess Zyan’s concept album “Romancing Asia”. Meanwhile, Ken is appointed as the composer for the box office series “Abang Long Fadil 3” and “Polis Evo 3”. Ken Hor 何福權是資深音樂人兼大學講師，擁有豐富的古典與傳統音樂背景。Ken 的職業生涯開始於商業和廣告歌曲的製作，偶爾也會嚐試不同風格類型的音樂編製。大學時期愛上浪漫及現代主義音樂，後著迷融合民族樂和概念音樂。2004 年時，Ken 前往加州大學洛杉磯分校（UCLA）修讀電影配樂，在美國的電影節也都能夠聽到他的配樂作品。2009 年他所製作的現代民族大型演奏會 “Let's Go Mamak” 讓他贏得 4 座 BOH Cameronian Arts Awards 的獎項。Ken 的作品也包括屢獲殊榮的獨立專輯《十一号月台》和 AIM 最佳樂團「Mad August」。
Ken 在音樂上的專業與熱忱讓他們的作品充滿感染力，其中不乏賣座電影的配樂，包括 2018 與 2019 熱賣電影 《KL Special Force》 及 《Misteri Dilaila》、 2017 年打破歷史票房紀錄的 《Abang Long Fadil 2》和多部風靡國內外的微電影。他也曾為許多著名藝人製作音樂，例如宇珩、巴薩公主欣彦、Sheila Majid、Kaka Azraff、傅健颖、友弟、凌加峻、陈珂冰、梁靜茹、Celist ⻘⻘、「大馬陳美」楊佩絲等等。自2009年與拍檔羅世承成立音納工作室（Inner Voices Productions）合作不斷開創音樂的各種製作，曾參與馬來西亞愛樂 (Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra)、Young Malaysians Go Classic 音樂節、2010 上海世博會、上海交響樂團、KLPAC 交響樂團、馬來西亞國家交響樂團、Orkestra Tradisional Malaysia、Young KL Singers、多屆 BMW 電影節、花蹤文學、台北金馬影展VR電影《5 x 1》等等。 過去七年，Ken 在不同大學擔任客座講師，專注於電影配樂，廣告音樂，管弦樂寫作，編曲以及音樂製作。2020 年一月初，Ken 與拍檔為欣彦製作的概念專輯《唱遊亞洲 Romancing Asia》榮獲 AIM 最佳專輯，同時兩人也正式接手賣座電影系列《Polis Evo 3》及《Abang Long Fadil 3》的配樂項目。 
Provocatively beautiful music from Kuala Lumpur... a center of brilliantly crafted compositions and masterful performers. 5✭
~ Ray Pizzi on Ken's concert "Let's Go Mamak" |
