As announced earlier, Professor Gillian Choa, Director, will retire from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) effective from 1 January 2025. Professor Choa will take pre-retirement leave from 18 to 31 December 2024. In this connection, the Council has appointed Dr Gordon Munro, Deputy Director (Academic), as the Acting Director of the HKAPA for the period from 18 December 2024 to 17 April 2025. The Council is conducting a global search for the next Director.
Taking this opportunity, the Council would like to express its gratitude to Professor Choa for her valuable contribution to the HKAPA over the past 28 years, and wish her happy retirement and all the best in the future.
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The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), established by The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Ordinance in 1984, is a leading tertiary institution in the performing arts in Asia. It provides professional undergraduate education and practice-based postgraduate studies. The study encompasses Chinese Opera, Dance, Drama, Film and Television, Music, and Theatre and Entertainment Arts. Its educational philosophy reflects the cultural diversity of Hong Kong with emphasis on Chinese and Western traditions, and interdisciplinary learning.
Since 2008, the Academy has attained the Programme Area Accreditation (PAA) status awarded by the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ) to self-monitor and accredit its own undergraduate and post-secondary programmes in the five programme areas of Dance, Drama, Film and Television, Music, and Theatre and Entertainment Arts. Since 2016, the PAA status has been extended to cover Master’s Degree programmes and below; and since 2023, the programmes operated by the School of Chinese Opera accredited by HKCAAVQ has also received PAA status for its post-secondary and undergraduate programmes.
Besides the main campus in Wanchai, Béthanie, the site of the Academy’s Landmark Heritage Campus in Pokfulam, has housed training facilities for the School of Film and Television since 2006.
In the QS University Rankings announced in 2024, the Academy ranks 1st in Asia in the Performing Arts category.