Tsz To Lo (Toto) is a composer and pianist from Hong Kong. He completed his Master’s degree in Music Composition at the University of Oxford, supported by the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme. Prior to that, he studied composition at Hong Kong Baptist University, where he was awarded the Scholarship for Outstanding Performance from the HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund.
Toto has had his music showcased during the Fusion Arts FOCUS at the inaugural DEPOT gallery, the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building at St Hilda's College, the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium at Wolfson College, the Clore Studios at New College, St John the Evangelist Church, the Holywell Music Room at Oxford, as well as Darwin College at Cambridge, the Glad Café at Glasgow, and St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria.
His compositions have been performed by the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oxford Song Young Artist Jonathan Eyers, the Red Note Ensemble in Scotland, the Romer Quartet in Hong Kong, as well as the pianist David Palmer, the organist Ulla Krigul, the Berliner Philharmoniker flautist Egor Egorkin, and the harpist Olivia Jageurs.
Toto is passionate about opera and has served as a répétiteur for the Oxford Opera Society. As a piano accompanist, he has worked with the Oxford Singers, the Wolfson Choir, the United College Choir (CUHK), and the Carol Bateman School of Dancing.
He participated in the Thirteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, joining the Mentored Undergraduate Research Challenge: Human-Aware AI in Sound and Music.
As a stage performer, Toto has taken part in numerous productions, including the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Palazzetto Bru Zane (Carmen), American Ballet Theatre (Whipped Cream), Teatro Regio Torino (Simon Boccanegra), Bayerisches Staatsballett (La Bayadère), Ballett Zürich (Anna Karenina), and several productions with Opera Hong Kong, such as Turandot and Aida.