CHOI Ka Man Misty
Research Associate
Education
BA in Linguistics (CityU); MPhil in Linguistics (CityU); MA in Music (CUHK); MPhil in Music (CUHK); PhD in Musicology (Duke)
About
Misty Choi's research investigates the intersections of music, language, literature, and semiotic thought in twentieth-century and contemporary culture. She works across postwar avant-garde music, French Symbolism, and film music, with particular attention to Luciano Berio, Maurice Ravel, and Chinese martial arts cinema. Her doctoral dissertation examined Berio's music through linguistic theory, semiotics, and psychoanalysis, and her current projects explore broader questions of musical meaning, voice, and sound-image relations.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Music & Letters, Twentieth-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Perspectives of New Music, and Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung. She has contributed chapters to edited volumes published in Germany, Switzerland, and Hong Kong. Her article on Maurice Ravel's art song, published in Music & Letters, received an honorable mention for the Jerome Roche Prize (2026).
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Music & Letters, Twentieth-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Perspectives of New Music, and Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung. She has contributed chapters to edited volumes published in Germany, Switzerland, and Hong Kong. Her article on Maurice Ravel's art song, published in Music & Letters, received an honorable mention for the Jerome Roche Prize (2026).