Sanders Lau is a tenor and conductor working between the UK and Hong Kong. Currently pursuing the MA programme in Solo Voice Ensemble Singing at the University of York under Robert Hollingworth and Alex Ashworth, he remains active as Artistic Director of NOĒMA, Hong Kong’s professional chamber choir, which he founded in 2022.

In the 2026/27 season, Sanders sings with Vox Luminis XL for the first time, on a European tour with Camerata Salzburg performing Mozart’s Requiem and Haydn’s ‘Nelson’ Mass’. He will also sing the Evangelist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion at Hong Kong’s St John’s Cathedral, where he also sang the Evangelist in Bach’s St John Passion in 2024. Other highlights include singing with NOĒMA in Hong Kong alongside VOCES8 for a special recording project with the Hong Kong Inter-School Choral Festival. He has previously performed as a singer at Musikfest Bremen (Germany), Collegium Vocale Crete Senesi (Italy), Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (USA) and Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute (Canada), studying in masterclasses with Lionel Meunier, Florian Sievers, Alex Potter, and Simon Carrington, among others. At York he also sings with The 24, the university’s chamber choir, and assists in leading rehearsals.

A leading choral conductor in Hong Kong, Sanders has led NOĒMA in collaborations with internationally acclaimed ensembles including Tenebrae, Vox Luminis and VOCES8, as well as eminent local artists and organisations including the Hong Kong Arts Festival, University of Hong Kong MUSE, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Cong Quartet, director Ivanhoe Lam, media artist Keith Lam, and composers Adrian Wong, Kai-Young Chan, Daniel Lo, Chris Cheung and many more. NOĒMA’s cross-disciplinary production Garden of Repose was shortlisted for the 2024 Classical:NEXT Innovation Award, and the choir was the demonstration choir at a session of the World Symposium on Choral Music 2026. Sanders is also Resident Conductor of Die Konzertisten, a Hong Kong chamber choir, which he has prepared for performances under Stephen Layton, Jonathan Cohen, John Butt, and Felix Yeung.

Sanders is also sought-after as a choral educator. He regularly guest-conducts, adjudicates and leads masterclasses across Asia and beyond, including at the Voices of Singapore Festival, the Malaysian Choral Eisteddfod, the Hong Kong Inter-School Choral Festival, and major universities in Hong Kong and the region. He recently joined the team at Barnsley Youth Choir (UK), double world champions at the 2026 World Choir Games, providing conducting training for their young conductors through their newly launched Mentoring Programme and masterclasses.

In 2023, Sanders won First Prize and two Special Awards at the Romano Gandolfi International Competition for Choral Conductors in Italy. He holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.