Chee Wei received one of the top awards at the prestigious 21st COMPASS (Composers and Authors Society of Singapore) awards presentation. The Singapore-born film score composer received the “Top Soundtrack” award for his score on Animal Planet’s “Mekong – Soul of a River”, a four-part documentary series that explores the people and wildlife that depend upon Asia's most enigmatic river for their survival.
This is not the first time Chee Wei has received the COMPASS awards. In 2013, he received the COMPASS – “Wings of Excellence” award for his outstanding overseas achievements in music. In 2010, He received the “COMPASS Young Composer of the Year” and “Top soundtrack” awards for his work on PBS’ (American television) documentary, “NOVA : Ocean Animal Emergency”.
The annual COMPASS Awards recognizes achievements in the Singapore music industry. Awards are given to outstanding individuals who have excelled in the various music genres.
"Zero Calling (Season 2)" receives nomination for Best Music Score (long form) at the Apollo Awards
Chee Wei's Score for the thriller series "Zero Calling (Season 2)" has been nominated for "Best Original Score"at the 2016 Apollo Awards. This series has also been nominated in the category of “Best Sound Design”.
The Apollo Awards honours the best in production and post-production across Asia Pacific, with a strong focus on the creative and technical mastery behind the scenes.
The winners will be revealed at the Apollo Awards Ceremony on 1st June 2016. Stay tuned!
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":
CheeWei TAY appearing on "Behind The Words" on Monday, 23rd November.
Special presentation on "Behind the Words" on Monday 23rd November 2015 from 7pm (AEST) on C31 Melbourne - Award winning film composer Chee Wei TAY and team discuss the thought process behind composing the score and production of the soundscape for the Asian horror film 'Bring Back the Dead'.
International viewers can also catch it via the live stream on the C31 webpage.
Chee Wei Scores for "Singapore Archipelago"
Chee Wei recently completed scoring for Historical Documentary Series called "Singapore Archipelago".
Chee Wei Scores for NOVA's "Life's Rocky Start"
Chee Wei recently completed scoring for an episode of the NOVA Series called "Life's Rocky Start".
This Episode is slated to air in Spring 2015 on PBS (USA) nationwide..
While we are currently unable to show you the trailer for this episode, Here is a compilation of some spectacularly shot images of some of the minerals and rocks accompanied with some of Chee Wei's score for this episode.
There are no 3D graphics in this film - everything is a real shot of naturally occurring minerals. Even the fluorescent rock is real. It's shot under a UV light.
Isn't Nature is a spectacular artist?
"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: