Chee Wei's score for thriller drama mini-series, Zero Calling, has been nominated for Best Music Score at the upcoming Apollo Awards
The Apollo Awards will be held in Singapore in early June so keep an eye out for the results!
Here’s a short clip of Zero Calling:
News Article on Herald Sun / Leader West on Chee Wei's awards at the 48th Worldfest - Houston International Film Festival:
Here's a News article on a local papers called Star weekly about the 48th Houston Worldfest awards.
We'd like to thank Starweekly for the interview and coverage!
Here's the link to the digital edition of the newspaper:
If you are in Singapore, be sure to catch the premiere of Zero Calling (Season 2)
CheeWei's been busy crafting the score and supervising the Post Production Sound for this series!
Chee Wei picked up five awards at the Worldfest Houston earlier today.
He was awarded the Platinum Remi Award for outstanding music in Channel NewsAsia’s 4-part documentary series, “Footprints”.
Chee Wei also composed the music score for four other award winning titles which he represented at the Awards Gala:
Gold Remi Award (Medical/Health/Fitness/Procedures) - Children of Leprosy
Silver Remi Award (TV mini-series) - Zero Calling
Silver Remi Award (TV series - Informational) - Artisans Reboot
Bronze Remi Award (Informational/Cultural/Historical program - Series) - Kungfu Motion
Chee Wei would like to extend his thanks and appreciation to the production teams of the above award-winning titles for the wonderful opportunities to compose the music for the programs
Cheewei will be giving a guest lecture at the on Thursday, 29th Jan 2015 at the Georgia College’s Music department from 3pm EST on “Music Scoring - from storyboard to broadcast”.
Non students of Georgia College who are interested in attending this guest lecture may enquire at the college's music department for admission.
Cheewei will be giving a guest lecture at the on Tuesday, 27th Jan at the Seminole State College of Florida between 6pm - 9pm EST on audio/music production for Film and Television
If you are in the area and would like to attend the session, please feel free to attend. Priority seating will be given to students of the college.
Chee-Wei Tay won the Wings of Excellence award at the 18th Composers and Authors Society of Singapore awards for achieving outstanding music performance internationally.
The Singapore-born film score composer said the awards were the equivalent to the ARIAS.
Mr Tay said he was surprised and honoured by the award, saying it was the first time a non-pop composer had received the Wings of Excellence award.
Mr Tay moved to Australia two years ago to help further his career. He had been composing professionally for about 15 years with a dream of scoring the music for a Hollywood movie.
“When I was young and first watched movies, I was really inspired by the songs,” Mr Tay said. “I find that in some cases words can only do so much. I was trying to find a different way of expression without words.”
“The irony is that my parents opposed my music interest because I wasn’t studying enough. My mother sold my piano.”
