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Bo-Wah Leung
Dr. Bo-Wah Leung is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, and Director of Research Centre for Transmission of Cantonese opera at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). He received the prestigious Musical Rights Award from the International Music Council (founded by UNESCO) in 2011 for his leadership in a research project entitled ‘Collaborative Project on Teaching Cantonese Opera in Primary and Secondary Schools’. He has founded the Research Centre for Transmission of Cantonese Opera and developed a bilingual website titled Hong Kong Cantonese Opera to disseminate knowledge and news about the genre in Hong Kong. His edited book, Traditional Musics in the Modern World: Transmission, Evolution and Challenges (Springer, 2018) features the issue of transmission of traditional musics globally. He is the Chair of the Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research, and one of the co-editors of the International Journal of Music Education.