Wong Ching-yin

Wong is active in composing, conducting, and performing. He is studying Master of Music at The Chinese University of Hong Kong majoring in composition under Prof. Chan Kai-young. He has also studied pipe organ under tutelage of Dr. Anne Lam in his undergraduate years. Wong composes music across a range of genres, instruments, and styles. He endeavours to explore the dialogue between familiarity and alienation, and the relationship between music and sound by considering musical instruments as sound objects.

His works have been performed both locally and internationally in the United States, Sweden, Spain, and etc. They are also selected to renowned festivals such as June in Buffalo and the VIPA festival. Among his major recent works are le motif disparu written for Mivos Quartet, Wind Quintet Wandering Glimmer and Broken Light composed for the Hong Kong Wind Kamerata, and Les orbites éternelles for Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra. Wong’s works were selected multiple times for the ‘Music from the Heart’ concerts of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. He is subsequently commissioned in 2020 by the orchestra to write The Song of Youth, a 14-minute long orchestral piece to mark the opening of their youth orchestra.

Wong is currently serving Hong Kong New Music Ensemble as assistant conductor. At the university, he conducts the Chung Chi Student Chinese Orchestra and he also led ensemble to premiere student colleagues’ works in various concerts. He aspires to continue leading contemporary ensembles in his future career. He is also an avid huqin musician who actively explores and expands the sonic palette of the instrument. He performs on multiple huqin instruments, including but not limited to gaohu, erhu, and banhu. He has served as the concertmaster of Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra from 2018 to 2022.