| Name | KOON Fuk-yin Frederic |
| Present Post | Lecturer Department of General Education and Language Studies Caritas Bianchi College of Careers |
| Office Address | Room A612 , 2 Chui Ling Lane, Tseung Kwan O, N.T., Hong Kong |
| Telephone | (852) 3702 4319 |
| fykoon@cihe.edu.hk |
I majored in philosophy in both my undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Being an enthusiast in humanities, mainly in philosophy, and with increasingly widespread interests in literature and history, I feel contenteds that finally I have a chance to realize my vocation as a teacher and mentor to the next generations.
Before working as a full-time lecturer, I have been in the piano business field for a long period of time, and I am well-equipped with teaching experience, credits mainly going to my work and practice in classical music. My past work experience exposed me to a world of negotiations mainly conducted in English, and I deem this as one of my most competitive aspects, namely the bi-lingual proficiency. Even before teaching in Caritas, I had developed a diversity of interests in the following academic subjects such as Ancient Chinese Philosophy (mainly Confucianism and Taoism), Ancient and Modern Western Philosophy (mainly Ancient Greek Philosophy and philosophical trends since Immanuel Kant), topics such as Ethics and Political Philosophy, etc.
On the other hand, my life-long aesthetics and pursuit in piano performance and teaching have been blossoming since my encounter with the concert pianist Mr. Ernest Hin-Leung So more than 10 years ago. We have launched many pioneering events together for promotion of rare and non-standard repertoire, and we have established a few platforms for encouraging amateur musicians to actively participate in musical performances such as quasi-19th century music salons and joint recitals by non-professional musicians. I have been keeping my own research of rare musical gems for years and I was co-founding the Ernest So Library with Mr. So, an archive of musical scores which are at the margin of oblivion. We would like to bring new breath via performances and recordings to these treasures and gems.
I formed a piano duo called Philomusica with Edmund Cham in 2012. Having been collaborating with a group of pianists for years, I also founded a group called Les Pianistes, wishing that the group can establish her specific identity as dedicators to piano music with its broadest possible spectrum, which should not only to institutionalized practice that prevails the market-oriented world nowadays. I started writing piano arrangements and transcriptions in 2012 which include the notations (from recording) of "Noturno by Gnattali", "Vous qui passez sans me voir" by Trenet-Weissenberg, Mompou's Cancion and Dansa No.13, and the arrangements from different instrumentations for solo piano, e.g. Kapustin's Paraphrase on Dizzy Gillespie's Manteca for two pianos, Nearly Waltz for cello and piano.
Lately I have been delving into two very different languages, namely Latin and German. After studying the former intensively for a couple of years, I started to try to cross over the threshold of the urtext of the antique literature such as those written by Seneca and Caesar. With the study of the latter language, I would like to realize a humble personal expectation: to read Nietzsche in his original tongue.
My first teaching experience happened when I worked as a teaching assistant in the HKUST during 1997 to 1999. I have led tutorials in different subjects such as logic, comparative philosophy, etc. where I was obliged to supplementing materials that might not be treated by the responsible lecturers and professors.
I have also taught HKCEE class (English) in Church of Christ in China Ming Yin Evening School. I taught there for two years and that is a valuable experience in my teaching life.
After that, my main teaching experience is from the private tutorship to piano students and the piano master classes that I offer to candidates of the Associated Board of Royal School of Music organized by various music institutions.
Since 2017, I started teaching in CIHE and CBCC. The subjects that I undertook are Critical thinking, GE101 and Social Ethics GE105. From Fall 2017, I started working on two more subjects which are Ethics and Moral Issues, GE102 and Society and the Individual, GE106. Afterwards, I am assigned Liberal Studies, GE003 for the DGS programme. The latest task that I have just picked up is to co-teach in Major Languages of the World (for the session of Latin), BATT105.