Tsao Chieh

Chieh Tsao (Chinese:曹 节) (* December 27, 1953 in Singapore, † October 1996 in Singapore ) was a Singaporean composer, engineer and mathematician.

Life

Tsao received his primary education at St Michael's and St Joseph's Institute in Singapore and studied piano with Victor Doggett, where he Royal Schools of Music ( LRSM ) obtained his Licentiate of the piano at the age of 18 years. With a grant from the Singapore Armed Forces, he could deny his engineering studies at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. While in England he was able to prove various seminars for orchestration at Manchester Music Department, but his vornehmliche source of information was the study of scores and attending concerts with the widest possible repertoire.

Upon his return to Singapore in 1975, he worked for the Ministry of Defence, Singapore ( MINDEF ) on various aspects of national defense and was able to prove in 1980 with a grant from further graduate studies at Stanford University in the United States. At Stanford, he also studied composition with Leland Smith. His musical talent emerged when he won first prize at the Paul and Jean Hanna Music Competition with his Four Songs from Romantic Poets. In 1986 he became 's Award for his major orchestral work with the Singapore Outstanding Young Person - Symphonic Suite for large orchestra won again. Tsao received his Master of Arts in Music Composition, a Master of Science in Mathematics and a doctorate in Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering.

In 1985 he came back to Singapore and pursued his career in MINDEF and later with the Defence Science Organisation. He led major scientific investigations in the field of radar technology. He was also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering at the National University of Singapore. In 1995, he left the military organization to become CEO of Sembawang Corporation. In his spare time he composed works for orchestra and experimented with microtonal music for synthesizer and computer. Furthermore, he planned to write an opera, which was based on the legend from the Bukit Merah Singapore. However, he was unable to realize this project, because he died of cancer at the age of 42 years.

Compositions

Works for Orchestra

Works for wind orchestra

Vocal music

Chamber Music

Works for Piano

Electronic Music

Publications

  • Chieh Tsao: Matrix Quantization of LPC Speech Using the Generalized Lloyd Algorithm, Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1985.
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Engineer
  • Mathematicians ( 20th century)
  • Singaporeans
  • University teachers (Singapore )
  • Born in 1953
  • Died in 1996
  • Man
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