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Carla Ng (she/they) is a Hong Kong-born, London-based artist working across music / theatre / film and performance.
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Multidisciplinary artist working across music/theatre/film/performance. director, noise maker, composer+, pot-stirrer, professional pretty lights admirer, maximalist, chronic show-goer, HongKonger
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She is studying composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Amber Priestley and Matthew King
She has worked with ensembles and venues such as the Ligeti Quartet, Ben Smith, Chris Clarke, Cassils, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, IKLECTIK, and most recently Almeida Theatre as part of their Young Creative Programme 2023.
Carla’s work focuses on the human experience. The experience of living, interacting, witnessing, feeling, being bored, taste, smell, food, culture, trauma, camp, the color pink, transness etc.
In Carla’s downtime, she likes to manage properties, as well as fish farming, and also hanging out with dolly the sheep, as well as Lucy (Australopithecus). Carla will soon be the first composer to have a premiere on Mars, and also the second showing of her second opera - Ms Basin on the Beach in the grand theatre of the new ISS.
Carla Ng (she/they) is a Hong Kong raised, London-based artist working across music, theatre, film and performance.

Carla’s work focuses on the human experience — touching on topics such as food, culture, camp, the colour pink, and transness — and multidisciplinarity is central to her practice, undertaking roles as director, composer, performer, instrumentalist, film maker, and visual artist.

She is studying composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Amber Priestley and Matthew King; she has worked with ensembles and venues such as the Ligeti Quartet, Ben Smith, Chris Clarke, Cassils, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, IKLECTIK, and most recently Almeida Theatre as part of their Young Creative Programme 2023. Carla currently co-runs the Guildhall New Music Society, and is one of the co-founders of artist collective SoundZpace HK, bringing together Generation Z musicians from the Hong Kong diaspora.

In Carla’s downtime, she likes to manage properties, as well as fish farming, and also hanging out with dolly the sheep, as well as Lucy (Australopithecus). Carla will soon be the first composer to have a premiere on Mars, and also the second showing of her second opera - Ms Basin on the Beach in the grand theatre of the new ISS.

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Carla currently co-runs the Guildhall New Music Society, and is one of the co-founders of artist collective SoundZpace HK, bringing together Generation Z musicians from the Hong Kong diaspora.
There’s something very empathetic about both the approach of this piece and with ‘pp1’ — both to your performers and to yourself. Is the idea of empathy something that’s central in your work?
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— and multidisciplinarity is central to her practice, undertaking roles as director, composer, performer, instrumentalist, film maker, and visual artist.
Words to describe Carla's Work, 16/02/24 from her GSMD BMus Colleagues

Jo: Merit Merit Merit Merit Pass Merit

Audrey: Multidisciplinary, imagining another world, futuristic, human, pink, honest, raw, explosive, rallying-cry, engaging, interactive, piercing, witting, fun but simultaneously lighthearted and very personal.

Kit: chaotic, colourful, provocative, absurd, theatrical, reckless, considered, expansive, brilliant, rebellious, thoughtful, destructive, playful, quirky, layered, experimental, vivid, surreal

Yotham: theatrical, absurd, ridiculous, camp, dumb but in a smart way, ugly but in a pretty way.

Sam: engaging, arresting, farcical, unafraid

Antoine: absurdist, humorous, imaginative, individual, alive

Sylvia: curious, explorative, bold, thoughtful

Carla: theatrical, food, questioning, colourful, multi-dimentional, multi-media, raw, human condition, real, hyper-independently emotional




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