Dr. Lucas Wong does music teaching (in person and remote), masterclass, adjudication, performance (solo and collaborative), music-releated consultation, and web and app development.
Piano tracks made easy
Create and recreate your piano tracks at your fingertips easily and seamlessly. The app include innovative functions such as realtime transposition, speed adjustment, chord recognition, fermata, and skip ahead. In addition to 500 readily available sample tracks from string methods to opera arias, user may also import a custom MIDI file.
Get a Quote for the Next Gig
A useful calculator that illustrates the importance of psychological and other factors that come into play, when determining a fair fee for a collaborative service! As you change any parameter, such as engagement type, length, extra practice time, traveling time, impression of the gig, and ranking in your field, the app would do the calculation for you instantly.
40000+ Poems and Arias
Find song and aria texts in one centralized spot! Containing over 40000 unique entries, with famous poems, lyrics, and aria texts, primarily in English, German, Italian, and French, this app lets you easily highlight, cut, copy, paste, edit, and make notes within the text body. Thematic recitals, anyone?
Speak and Sing with Confidence
Transcribe any scanned or inputted French text into speech and IPA in real time! International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) system provide significant assistance to foreign speakers and singers, when it comes to pronouncing French texts authentically. This app allows you to both see and hear the pronunciation as you scan or enter the text.
Perfect the Pronunciation
Among 20000 Chinese characters, about 2000 of them hold multiple pronunciations according to the meaning and situation. Having an accurate reference for the different pronunciation is certainly important. This app aims to address these pitfalls better than many existing resources elsewhere. This app supports picture recognition in very high accuracy.
Snap. Type. Listen. Read.
In this app, you will find all Cantonese slang words to be recognized. It supports both traditional and simplified input with unlimited amount of text or scanned text. Enjoy the ability of looking at all alternative pronunciations, while hearing the text to be spoken back through the text-to-speech function.
With IPA and Yale Romanization
Transcribe any Korean character into Yale Romanization and IPA automatically, along with text-to-speech capability. Both Yale Romanization and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) systems provide significant assistance to foreign singers, when it comes to pronouncing Korean texts authentically. This app allows you to both see and hear the pronunciation as you enter the text.
The Multifunctional Pianist: The Recipe for Orchestral Color and Playing
"As vocal pianists throughout our studies and careers, we all work with piano reductions encountered in choral and operatic repertoire. Singers, who study these works through the lens of a piano score or reduction, depend on accompanists’ or coaches’ expertise in realizing these scores, while adapting accordingly to different needs in their preparation..."
The world's best web app solution for realtime accompaniment
A collaborative web app for accompanists and artists. Allows for realtime, low latency rehearsal with a tapping or automation trigger, or an actual pianist through a midi keyboard over WebRTC video chat. Subscription required. 4D Piano has been featured on the NATS Journal of Singing, The Opera Database, and SoCal Vocalist Relief Fund livestreams.
Innovative and Contemporary Approaches to Keyboard Harmony, Improvisation, Score Reading, and Reduction Techniques.
Over the course of five chapters, the trajectory of skills is examined in an “A-to-Z” approach. “A” is perhaps a piano major with some formal functional keyboard training, while “Z” is the keyboard wizard, at the graduate level, who possesses a great functional capacity as a successful collaborative pianist.
On FAZIOLI F308 with four pedals.
“his gifts for colour, nuance and tasteful dynamic contrasts…sexily shaped trills…the point and precision of his détaché articulation…discreet use of agogics and his mastery of the kind of overlapping finger legato…attention to detail and clear commitment unquestionably come across, abetted by fine engineering. Recommended.” (Gramophone)
Multiple Perspectives of Douze études.
Through detailed examination and comparison, Claude Debussy’s Douze études — originally organized into two volumes — are regrouped according to four tendencies that may be useful to contemporary performers: chopinesque, homage, avant-garde, and parody/humour. Humour is the most prominent of these, from the first bar of a child-like study to sophisticated allusions to Emmanuel Chabrier’s music.