SAU-MAN YIP

MUSIC COMPOSER & ARRANGER | PIANO & KALIMBA TEACHER | CONTENT CREATOR

Fly With Me - Recording Project @ AIR Studios, London, U.K.

The Bear and the Piano - Theme Song of a Children Musical

Sau-Man Yip received her Bachelor Degree (Hon) in Music from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Later she went to Berklee College of Music (Valencia Campus) in Spain to study Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games.

Yip has been working as a music composer and arranger for over a decade. Clients include renowned orchestras, theatres and singers in Hong Kong. She has taught music courses in HKU SPACE and the Open University of Hong Kong, and is experienced in piano, music theory and African drumming education as well.

In 2016, she founded the company Kalimba Tree. Aiming to popularise the African oriented musical instrument, Yip focuses on kalimba pedagogy and developing the exclusive learning materials, also arranges popular songs and performs on the YouTube channel with over 160,000 subscribers.

Yip is currently based in the U.K., teaching piano at Berkshire Music Trust and Yamaha music course at Matrix Arts Centre.

― Education & qualification

Master of Music (Scoring for Film, TV and Video Games), Berklee College of Music, Valencia Campus
Bachelor of Arts (Music), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
LTCL Piano Diploma, Trinity College London
Performance Certificate (Popular Piano), Rockshool
Grade 8 (Music Theory), ABRSM
Recipient of the CASH (Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong) Music Scholarship for Overseas Studies 2013/2014
Member of CASH since 2005