Chee Wei TAY awarded at the 49th WorldFest Houston International Film Festival

Chee Wei TAY was awarded the Gold Remi Award for the “Best Music Score” for his work on the feature film, “Bring Back the Dead”, making him the sole winner for that category at the Worldfest Houston yesterday.

This is the second consecutive year in which Chee Wei received a Remi award for his music scores.

“Bring Back the Dead” also won the Platinum Remi Award in the “Best Fantasy / Horror Film”

Additionally, Chee Wei represented several other titles that were awarded at Worldfest Houston, having composed the music score and headed the sound post-production for the following winning titles:

Platinum Remi Award(Informational/Cultural/Historical program - Series) - Singapore Archipelago
Gold Remi Award(Informational / Cultural / Historical program - Series) - Route Awakening
Gold Remi Award(TV series) - Zero Calling Season 2

Chee Wei would like to extend his thanks and appreciation to the production teams of the above award-winning titles for the opportunities to compose the music score for the programs.

The WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival is one of the three original international film festivals in North America and is the oldest independent film festival in the USA. There was a record number of over 4500 entries from over 70 countries in this year’s edition of Worldfest.

WorldFest gave first honors to Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ang Lee, Ridley Scott, The Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Ridley Scott, Oliver Stone, John Lee Hancock, John Frankenheimer,, Daniele Gangemi, Francis Ford Coppola, and many more.

Speaking after the awards Chee Wei said: “I know it’s been said before but events like this show again just how music transcends language, people, places and other divisions between us. When I saw the people at Worldfest Houston found the films so obviously enjoyable and thought provoking, even when it is not presented in their native language, it just reinforced for me how important a good music really score is to all of us so I really have to salute the efforts of our crew of talented musicians and sound engineers."

"Bring Back the Dead" Receives nomination for Best Music at the 49th Worldfest Houston

Chee Wei's Score for the the Asian Horror Film "Bring Back the Dead" has been nominated for "Best Original Score' at the 49th Worldfest Houston (International Film Festival). This film has also been nominated in the category of “Best Horror / Fantasy Film”.

The 49th Worldfest Houston will be held in Houston, Texas in mid April 2016, so keep an eye out for the results!

Here’s a short featurette of the making of the music score and sound design for "Bring Back the Dead":

"Zero Calling" Receives nomination for Best Music at the Apollo Awards

Chee Wei's score for thriller drama mini-series, Zero Calling, has been nominated for Best Music Score at the upcoming Apollo Awards

The Apollo Awards will be held in Singapore in early June so keep an eye out for the results!

Here’s a short clip of Zero Calling:

Composer Chee Wei Tay wins up big at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival - Herald Sun / Leader

News Article on Herald Sun / Leader West on Chee Wei's awards at the 48th Worldfest - Houston International Film Festival:

Small Screen, Big Rewards - StarWeekly

Here's a News article on a local papers called Star weekly about the 48th Houston Worldfest awards.

We'd like to thank Starweekly for the interview and coverage!

Here's the link to the digital edition of the newspaper:

Chee Wei receives 5 awards at the 48th Houston World Fest

Chee Wei picked up five awards at the Worldfest Houston earlier today.

He was awarded the Platinum Remi Award for outstanding music in Channel NewsAsia’s 4-part documentary series, “Footprints”.

Chee Wei also composed the music score for four other award winning titles which he represented at the Awards Gala:

Gold Remi Award (Medical/Health/Fitness/Procedures) - Children of Leprosy
Silver Remi Award (TV mini-series) - Zero Calling
Silver Remi Award (TV series - Informational) - Artisans Reboot
Bronze Remi Award (Informational/Cultural/Historical program - Series) - Kungfu Motion

Chee Wei would like to extend his thanks and appreciation to the production teams of the above award-winning titles for the wonderful opportunities to compose the music for the programs

Composer's Top Honour in Singapore

Chee-Wei Tay won the Wings of Excellence award at the 18th Composers and Authors Society of Singapore awards for achieving outstanding music performance internationally.

The Singapore-born film score composer said the awards were the equivalent to the ARIAS.

Mr Tay said he was surprised and honoured by the award, saying it was the first time a non-pop composer had received the Wings of Excellence award.

Mr Tay moved to Australia two years ago to help further his career. He had been composing professionally for about 15 years with a dream of scoring the music for a Hollywood movie.

“When I was young and first watched movies, I was really inspired by the songs,” Mr Tay said. “I find that in some cases words can only do so much. I was trying to find a different way of expression without words.”

“The irony is that my parents opposed my music interest because I wasn’t studying enough. My mother sold my piano.”