Lam Manyee or Lin Minyi is a Chinese

China

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 composer and music producer. She was born in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 and graduated from the University of Hong Kong in psychology and sociology. Later she studied piano at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome

Rome

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 from 1973-76 with Franco Evangelisti

Franco Evangelisti

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 and composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg

Freiburg

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 with Brian Ferneyhough

Brian Ferneyhough

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. Afterward she worked as a composer in Hong Kong and the United States.

Works

Manyee has composed for orchestra, ballet and solo instrument. She has also composed over 50 film scores, music for TV and over 150 pop songs. Selected works include:

• Interludes for prepared piano, 1977
• Journey for chamber ensemble, 1977–78
• Monologo II for cello, piano and tapes, 1980
• Die Meng (Butterfly Dream), Chinese orchestra, 1978
• Ceng Die, 1981
• Double Triangle, ballet, 1976
• Bamboo Suite, ballet, 1983
• Mixed Visions, ballet, 1983
• Chinese Historical Myths, ballet, 1985
• ID Shuffle, ballet, 1985
• Kwaidan/Emaki, ballet, 1986
• Diary, ballet, 1988
• Hell Screen, ballet, 1990
• Stories of Aung San Suu Kyi, ballet, 1992
• Open Party, ballet, 1994
• Is there Life on Mars?, ballet, 1997
• Dream City, ballet, 1998
• Beauty and the Beast, ballet, 1999