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Biography
Tony Chen is a young freelance music and voice over talent who has worked for various TV/Film/Radio/Theatre production projects with his convincing talent of music composition and arrangement as well as voice over (mainly Mandarin and sometimes English).
Music Producer/Composer/Arranger
Tony Chen is from China, and he graduated from the Music department of University of Huddersfield in the UK, well known for its quality education in music. The main areas that Tony dedicated himself to his studies include music composition, scoring for film/screens, vocal training, conducting, opera performance, etc.
During the second year, he managed an A in vocal music performing, which was exceptional. According to Mr. Paul Wade, his voice coach, most students never achieve such scores, but Tony’s performance was truly “outstanding” and “first class level.”; Tony’s has achieve A in his scoring for film compositions before graduation; Tony’s music composition deeply touched the heart of Dr. Mathew Adkins, his composition tutor. According to Dr. Adkins, he has taught many students over the years, but never has there been any student composition like Tony’s: it left a deep impression on him.
Tony’s music sends forth a kind of bright and uplifting feeling. As a result, his dubbing and compositions have time and again found favor with the International Performing Arts Group, the International Chinese Language Media and various film studios.
Some of his voluntary cultural music arrangement works were performed at theatres such as Radio City Music Hall, Beacon Theater, Congres de Paris, Warner Theatre. One of the TV Ads he got involved in music composition is one of the ‘2010 Commercial Winners Silver Winners’ of the ‘31st Annual Telly Awards’.
Tony’s Music Journey
According to Mr. Chen, in current cultural and artistic works, many of his contemporaries overemphasize entertainment value, and music tends to become commercialised. It has, to some extent, become an instrument used to indulge the evil side of man, to make money and to amplify dark inner feelings. These, then, have a negative influence on both people’s bodies and minds. These works lead to the destruction of the entire society’s moral standard, burying the kindness within people’s heart.
Tony regards himself only as a music enthusiast, who wishes to pursue the quality or state of purity, beauty and righteousness on his music composition path. As he thinks that, music of this kind is beneficial to people and the whole society.
Music Style and Influence
Tony’s main music styles are pop, classical, new age, as well as crossover between these styles. His music can be pop, but you can still find the elegancy of classical music; His music can also be very serene, like those of new age music pieces, but it is still dramatic. Tony’s melody and harmony is simple, but beautiful and magnificent. Tony’s main music influences are from Yanni, John Tesh, Kitaro, Secret Garden, as well as original soundtracks of many TV Drama and movie, such as Korean Dramas and Hollywood movies. In addition, Tony has actively dedicated himself into the promotion of Chinese traditional Culture, during which he has composed many music in traditional Chinese style that satisfied modern people’s taste.
Current Music Activities:
Tony Chen is currently promoting his newly released album “Divine Land of China” (Remastered version). It is a special album that includes many short pieces, which are in Chinese style, expressed in western traditional and modern orchestration. The music pieces in this album have been created during the process of a global ongoing revival of the lost Chinese tradition among Chinese people all over the world. So it is an album that you can’t miss to open the gate to get to know about Chinese culture. The music styles includes new age, pop, and classical. Please preview the album and buy CD or mp3 downloads.
Tony is also working on the music production for the documentary Free China and its trailer produced by Award winning director of "Tibet Beyond Fear", Michael Perlman.
This documentary is a collaboration between World2Be Productions and New Tang Dynasty Television (a non profit entity). Principal photography is 90% complete. Post production to be completed by February 2011.
“A breath of fresh air to me.” - Sam Beynon, United Kingdom. Hearing Tony’s listeners’ comment, please browse the site to explore Tony’s music on your own to experience a whole new music journey. Be sure to sing up on Tony’s email list for advance notice on Tony’s further music activities.
Voice Over:
Tony Chen is also a bilingual Voice-Over Artist (Mandarin and English) distinguished for his nice and clear voice with the ability to accurately grasp the complex mentality of the figures, to bring the audience into the plot and, at the same time, to act as a dubber for different characters. Tony’s voice over works is fully supported by his outstanding talent in vocal training in University of Huddersfield, as well as music producing, which is grand, magnificent and beautiful, transmitting a power that makes people feel bright and uplifting.
He speaks standard Mandarin, without any other accents of Hong Kong or Taiwan. For Mandarin works, Tony accepts any kinds of works ranging from Cartoon, Animation, Film Dubbing, to Commercials, Corporate, Vocal singing, etc.
For English, Tony’s natural accent is a mix of British and slight Chinese. The vocal age range is 25 – 40. The delivery style is corporate, deep, educational, elegant and intelligent. Tony would be very much suitable to the following types of English work: Corporate/Industrial, Documentary, Animation and E-Learning/Training and Singing. The British flair to Tony’s accent gives him a very worldly international sound that many companies will enjoy.
His main clients includes the largest independent Global Chinese language TV network New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV [www.ntdtv.com]), The Global non-profit radio station Sound of Hope Radio Network (SOH) Chinese section, and as well as other clients such as Cadbury’s, PETER VINE, Union View through voice over agencies, etc. He has worked as TV presenter, Voice over artist, music composer and film dubber for many projects launched by NTDTV.
“Tony’s voice can also freely and fully express different thoughts and feelings as well as the features of different themes. As far as a dubbing actor is concerned, it is the most difficult part to achieve, that is, a dubbing actor is required to dub different characters in different situations with different dubbing techniques, which requires the dubbing actor to have both voice conditions and superb dubbing techniques. …he will surely become a great master of dubbing in the time to come”.
—––––––––Mr. Jiang Guangyu, a formal professional actor in the main land China and now a host and a program producer of the Independent Global Chinese TV network New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV)