Singers/Singer-songwriters

Jonathan Wong is a singer-songwriter, dancer-choreographer, and actor. Graduating from Cornell University with double majors in Psychology and Modern Dance in 2008, Jonathan made his Hong Kong musical debut in 2009 and has since then earned over 50 major awards in various categories for his work.

In 2016, Jonathan competed in the world’s largest televised singer-songwriter competition “Sing My Song”, broadcast on China’s CCTV-3. He joined Chinese R&B legend David Tao’s squad and was the only Hong Kong representative to make it into the top 6 of his team. In the same year, his composition “Beyond Borders” for Chinese pop diva Karen Mok gathered more than 35 million views online. Some of his other writing credits include Sammi Zheng and Chinese boy band XNINE.

Jonathan is also a prolific actor in film and television. In “The Limelight Years” (2015), Jonathan plays an exceptionally gifted musician driven to the edge of his sanity, earning him his first “Best Supporting Actor in a Television Drama” nomination. Jonathan then went on to star in TVB’s “OMG, Your Honour” (2018) as well as the upcoming series “Wonder Women” (2019) and “Airport Strikers” (2020). He has also played major supporting roles in Johnnie To’s critically acclaimed thriller “Three” (2016), “The House of the Rising Sons” (2018) and “Dynasty Warriors” (2020).

From 2019 – 2024, Jonathan led as the titular role in an original musical theater production “Matteo Ricci The Musical”. The 28 sold-out shows were exceptionally well-received, earning the production invitations to tour in various countries.

He is also on the executive committee of the Hong Kong Film Awards, The Hong Kong Filmmaker’s Guild, the Hong Kong Performing Artists Guild, and a founding member of its NGO Charitable foundation (alongside Jackie Chan, Louis Koo, and Eric Tsang, etc.) which has fought for the rights of local filmmakers, as well as created educational and employment opportunities for the next generation of industry professionals.

In the past 3 years, Jonathan has dedicated much of his time to developing scripted film and TV projects with his agency, William Morris Endeavor, as well as mixed reality entertainment projects under his production company Octagon Metatainment. He spends his time between Hong Kong and Los Angeles.

Violinist/Singer Janees majored in Violin Performance in Vienna, Austria. She returned to Hong Kong in 2019. At the age of 15, Janees began her studies in Austria with Professor Pierre Amoyal, majoring in Violin Performance. She later on began her career as a soloist and chamber violinist in Vienna, Austria. After returning to Hong Kong in 2019, Janees continued her path as a musician and began exploring different genres of music. She has since worked with famous producers such as Johnny Yim, Tsang Hei Chiu, Davy Tam, Mahmood Rumjahn etc.

With opportunists in the pop music scene arising, Janees has since then become a singer as well as a violinist. She was invited to perform for “JSG” (Jade Solid Gold), J Music etc. as guest performer, and was invited as opening guest performer for various large-scale events. Janees took part in TVB’s Singing Contest “Stars Academy 2” (2022), receiving critical acclaim from all around Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China as well as Malaysia. Her powerful voice and professionalism gained her ‘highest voting’ from audiences worldwide, and was awarded 2nd runner up. Her performance has even received personal congratulations and support from famous singer Alan Tam. Janees’s first single ‘Work of Art’ has recently been released. Janees is currently an active singer and violinist.

Zino is a singer-songwriter who released his second original song in 2022. He won the New Zealand New Talent Singing Competition in 2012 and secured second place in the 2015 Battle of the Bands Hong Kong Song Writing Competition. That same year, he wrote, composed, and performed the theme song “Where Were You” for the 852 Freedom Campaign. In 2018, Zino worked as a radio program producer for the show “Lemonaid.” The following year, he took on multiple roles—producer, director, mentor, and performer—for the Give A Song Give A Hope Song Writing Competition Concert. In 2022, he served as the music consultant for the documentaries “OneWay” and “Year Of The Ren,” contributed to Hunan Satellite TV’s program “Endless Melody,” and rearranged the song “Friends or Lovers,” performed by Sally Yeh.

R&B/ Electro-pop singer-songwriter TAOTAO has started her music journey with her studies at MI Hollywood, where inspired her to bring warmth and chill grooves to her asian audience. In 2021, she gained her first recognition with the winning of Ear Up Audience Award and Grand Prize. Since then, TAOTAO has performed at major venues and music festivals in Los Angeles, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong such as AsiaWorld-Expo, as well as sharing a stage with esteemed artists including Janice Vidal, Candy Lo, Chet Lam, SoulJase@C AllStar. In the past, TAOTAO has written songs about homeless people, LGBTQ and depression, as she believes in the idea that ’we are different but we can unite in emotions’. After releasing her first EP last year, TAOTAO will embrace the sentimental side of her with her upcoming work, meanwhile collaborating with artists from Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Japan.

“mue is a Korean singer-songwriter who grew up in Hong Kong, keen on producing Lo-Fi music from his bedroom. Through his laptop and guitar, mue finds music as his language and creates sounds which are emotionally complex and yet with a sense of sonic simplicity. He pursued his study in music at Berklee College of Music and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. To explore the possibilities of his music, mue travelled around the world, including Sydney, Korea and Boston. For now, he is landing on where he grows – Hong Kong.

Harmonicist

Cy Leo is a harmonica virtuoso and composer who defines the role of a harmonicist, standing out as one of the few in history capable of performing both classical and jazz music at a high level on the harmonica. He has received classical harmonica training from Lee Sheung-ching and Watani Yasuo, and has since achieved international recognition and success.

Leo’s journey began under the influence of his father, PC Ho, founder of the Hong Kong Harmonica Association. He gained recognition early on, winning his first international award at the Asia-Pacific Harmonica Festival at just 10 years old. By age 19, he had accumulated 17 international titles, including two-time Solo World Champion at the World Harmonica Festivals in 2009 and 2013.

Since his debut on the global harmonica stage, Leo has performed as a concert soloist with esteemed orchestra including the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hartford Symphony. He has also served as a guest performer and adjudicator at prestigious international harmonica events, including The Seoul International Harmonica Festival and World Harmonica Festival. He has toured as a Hong Kong artist representative to perform at over 20 cities across Europe, North America and Asia. Leo immersed himself in both the classical and jazz scenes, headlining at major jazz festivals like the Seoul Jazz Festival 2025 and Montreux Jazz Festival China. He has headlined at renowned jazz venues such as SF Jazz, Nublu, JZ Club, and Blue Note in both Beijing and Shanghai. He has collaborated with world celebrated musicians such as Cory Wong, Gil Goldstein, Hayato Sumino, Manuel Valera, Maurice Brown and Justin Stanton from Snarky Puppy. His standout opening performance at the 2022 New York Times Square Ball drop show reached billions of viewers worldwide.

Acknowledged as one of the leading musical talents in the region, Leo has been featured in various media outlets and has collaborated with prestigious brands such as Krug, Louis Vuitton and Harry Winston. Driven by innovation, he co-founded Ginger Muse, an instrumental music label promoting original music in Hong Kong. He has released several albums, including Lost In Time, Angel & Demon, Transcendence, and Free Dimension. In addition to his solo work, Leo has recorded music that resonates worldwide, collaborating with prominent pop artists in Hong Kong such as Sandy Lam, Joey Yung, Ivana Wong, Leo Ku, and Keung To. His contributions extend to the Hollywood film The Croods: A New Age, as well as numerous other films such as This Is Not What I Expected, Chasing the Dragon and Operation Hadal. He has also made his mark in the gaming industry with his work on the iconic game League of Legends on the theme of Teemo. He earned the Young Artist Award at the 14th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards in 2020 and also received a full scholarship to study Jazz Performance at New York University.

Recently, Leo published his first harmonica tutorial book, The Mastery of Modern Chromatic Harmonica, which has been well received in the global community. At Lowell Lo’s concert, Beyond Imagination, in 2017, he was recognized on stage as “the best harmonica player in the world.” He currently serves as the Co-Artistic Director of Music Lab.

Conductor/ Violinist

Hong Kong-native Andrew Ling is a concert violist and violinist, conductor, and music educator. Currently Principal Violist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil), Andrew has garnered acclaim for his orchestral playing and solo recitals worldwide. His appearances as concert soloist have included the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and the China Film Orchestra.

A versatile and an all-round musician, Andrew has brought his musicianship to conducting engagements with the HK Phil, the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra, Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra and Finland’s Seinäjoki City Orchestra and Kuopio Symphony Orchestra. Handpicked to conduct the HK Phil in rehearsal for Christoph Eschenbach and the late Lorin Maazel, he has worked alongside some of the world’s foremost conductors, including Jaap van Zweden, Edo de Waart, Jun Märkl, and Leonard Slatkin. Ling was the finalist of the Besançon International Conducting Competition 2017.

Andrew’s journey with music began at six, where he studied violin with the late Professor Lin Yaoji at the Central Conservatory of music, Beijing. He went on to pursue Violin Performance at Indiana University under Henryk Kowalski, Mauricio Fuks, Alan de Veritch and the late Ik-hwan Bae, and was a protégé of Cho-Liang Lin at Rice University.

A successful musician and a much sought-after art educator, upon his return to Hong Kong, Andrew remains active in the classical music scene. He is often seen playing solo, chamber and conducting. After returning to Hong Kong, Andrew continued his career as a concert musician and conductor. He has played with many renowned musicians including Yu-Ja Wang, Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Ning Feng, Michael Guttman and The Shanghai Quartet etc.

Outside the concert hall, Andrew is passionate about cultivating the next generation of musicians. He holds teaching positions at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University and Hong Kong Chinese University, and has also served as director of The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Orchestral Fellowship Scheme.

Andrew is the recipient of Certificate of Commendation from Secretary of Home Affairs of Hong Kong in 2012.

Andrew plays on a violin and viola made by Gaetano Sgarabotto.

 Violinist & Violist

Hong Kong-born young Violinist Brian Kwan Yeung Choi, has become the first Hong Kong representative to ever participate in the 14th Edition Chinese National Golden Bell Violin Competition in 2023. Brian has won numerous international competitions, including the winner of the Musicus Society‘s Young Artist Audition program in 2018, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Competition First Prize in 2017, the New York International Artists Association (NYIAA) First Prize in 2017, the Third Prize in the Boston Pops Concerto Competition in 2017, Third prize in the Bales Violin Competition in 2015, and the Hong Kong Young Musician of the Year First Prize in 2006. Brian has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the Musicus Society. Brian is currently an avid violin soloist, chamber musician as well as Concertmaster of the Hong Kong String Orchestra, Guest Concertmaster of the In-heritage Philharmonic, Associate Concertmaster of the Opera Hong Kong.

Brian started learning the violin at the age of six. Brian entered the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) at the age of eight as a preparatory student under the tutelage of violinist Leung Kin Fung, and he obtained the Certificate of Music at HKAPA at the age of seventeen. He recently completed a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree at the New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston, where he studied with violin masters Paul Biss, and pedagogue Donald Weilerstein. He has participated in several international competitions, including as a semi-finalist in the Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition in 2017, the 11th Wieniawski International Violin Competition for Young Violinists, as well as the 6th Tchaikovsky International Youth Violin Competition.

He has frequently performed as a soloist and in chamber music concerts. He often collaborates with famous musicians, including famous cellist Trey Lee, Hong Kong Pianist Colleen Lee, Rachael Cheung, Vanessa Wong, KaJeng Wong, and Hong Kong Violist Born Lau. In 2021, he has invited by the famous cellist Trey Lee to perform Vivaldi Double Concerto with him at the Hong Kong City Hall at the “ Musicus International Festival”. In the same year, he performed Vivaldi’s Winter from “The Four Seasons” Concerto with the famous pianist Colleen Lee at the Hong Kong City Hall. He has been repeatedly invited by the Music Society to perform for Mr. Tung Chee-hwa, the former Chief Executive of Hong Kong. In Jan of 2022, he was invited by the Hong Kong Orchestra to perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. In 2019, he was invited to perform with the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra as a soloist and was highly praised by Maestro Fu. In 2017 he performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto as a soloist with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, and the festival Paesaggi Musicali Toscani as a guest artist in the same year performed a recital in Italy with the legendary pianist Bruno Canino in late August and made his debut recital in Carnegie Hall as the winner of the NYIAA in September 2017.

Brian has extensive chamber music experience, studying with renowned artists including Joel Krosnick, Laurie Smukler, Katherine Murdock, Mai Motobuchi, Yeesun Kim, Roger Tapping, Donald Weilerstein. He has also performed in masterclasses including for members of the American String Quartet, Pacifica String Quartet, Juilliard String Quartet, Emerson String Quartet, Parker String Quartet. He attended the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival summer of 2016 and 2017 and was part of the Aspen Summer Music Festival Center for Advanced Quartet Studies, Juilliard String Quartet Seminar with the Ceres Quartet 2018.

Brian is currently an avid violin soloist, chamber musician as well as Concertmaster of the Hong Kong String Orchestra, Guest Concertmaster of the In-heritage Philharmonic, Associate Concertmaster of the Opera Hong Kong.

Born in Hong Kong, Chris Choi Shu-lun began studying violin at the age of six and viola at 17 under the tutelage of Wang Jiayang and Ivan Chan at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he completed his Master of Music Degree with full scholarships.

First Prize winner of the Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld 1st International String Competition (Chamber Music Division). Chris has performed extensively across Asia and Europe in venues such as the Royal Academy of Music, the West Dean College, the Wells Cathedral, the Central Conservatory of Music, the Shantou University, the Harvard Club of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong City Hall; and in music festivals such as the Pacific Music Festival (Japan), the Chilingirian’s Chamber Music Festival (U.K.), Musicus Fest (Hong Kong) and Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival. He also participated in the New York String Orchestra Seminar at the Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as toured with the Asian Youth Orchestra as

Assistant Principal Viola. Other performances included Walton’s Viola Concerto and Forsyth’s Viola Concerto with the Academy Symphony Orchestra, as well as solo performances at the ABRSM Prize Ceremony Presentation 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Chris has received numerous scholarships including the Y. S. Liu Foundation Scholarships, the SAR Philharmonic Scholarships, the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Scholarships for Outstanding Merit and the ABRSM Scholarships. He also participated in masterclasses and private lessons with Yuri Bashmet, Roger Benedict and Choong-Jin Chang. He joined the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra from 2018-2023.

Chris is now a violin and violin tutor at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts for the Junior Music Programme, as well as a chamber music coach at EdUHK.

Pianist

In 2013, Alex Wun studied with Andrew Ma in the Junior Program of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and completed Bachelor of Music in 2024 under the tutelage of Professor Gabriel Kwok. He is currently studying with Ian Fountain at the Royal Academy of Music, fully supported by the Lady Kadoorie Music Scholarships. 

Alex took part in the Summer Academy at Mozarteum University, HKEMA International Music Festival, Tianjin Julliard piano Festival and etc. In March 2024, he performed alongside violinist Sean Lee at the Hong Kong City Hall. In June, Alex made his concerto debut as the winner of HKAPA Concerto Trial 2024, with the HKAPA orchestra under the baton of Maestro Wing-SieYip.

Alex had won the Grand Prize of the HKGNA International Music Competition, First Prize of the 87th Steinway & Sons International Competition – HK and Macau regional finals, First Prize of the 5th International Liszt Ferenc Competition and the Grand Prize of the HKEMA Young Artist Award.

Guzheng Performer

香港土生土長的青年音樂家。畢業於香港演藝學院,先後獲取學士(一級榮譽)學位及音樂碩士(優異)學位,隨國家一級演員許菱子教授主修古箏。現爲天籟敦煌樂團經理、古箏及箜篌樂師,亦爲天樂古箏藝術團藝術總監。她精通各類樂器,年幼時啓蒙自劉衡老師及吳曉紅老師,在學期間曾得到著名古箏演奏家周望、孫文妍、王中山、滕春江等老師個別指導,亦曾隨王培瑜、林英苹及林吉衡老師學習潮州音樂、隨寧玲娟老師學習蝶式箏、隨吳琳老師及羅蘭老師學習箜篌、隨張慶崇老師副修古琴、隨張德明老師學習鋼琴。

陳氏曾多次參與國際比賽,屢獲殊榮,獎項包括:第三届「敦煌杯」中國古箏藝術菁英展演職業青年組銅獎、第二屆翰雅獎.中國傳統箏曲演奏比賽演奏獎及粵樂流派(風格)最佳演奏獎、第四屆國際古箏比賽青年專業組金獎、第七屆深圳「芳吟杯」古箏比賽專業組一等獎、首屆「青樂杯」兩岸三地青少年古箏比賽專業組銀獎、第四屆中國青少年藝術節古箏比賽全國金獎等。

陳氏積極參與各界演出活動及教學工作,曾於香港電台第四台主持《下一站四台》中《中樂縱橫談》環節,介紹及推廣中國音樂。現任教於香港演藝學院及多間中小學,並創立了天樂古箏藝術團,帶領團隊於第四届青少年國際古箏比賽及第七屆國際古箏比賽中獲得重奏組金獎。

陳氏於2019年透過康樂及文化事務處「音樂顯才華」系列,舉辦了「天樂姿音—陳天姿古箏音樂會」,全院滿座,亦於 2018 及 2016 年舉辦個人獨奏音樂會,其演奏廣獲好評。她於 2015 年獲選成為香港電台「樂壇新秀」,參與香港電台的錄音和電視拍攝工作,另曾多次參與無線電視翡翠台《文化廣場》節目的錄影,亦為 2013 及 2014 年度康樂及文化事務處社區文化大使之一。

Hong Kong x Korea – HKGNA HKW Ensemble

1st violin : Brian Choi, 이에스더, Madeleine Wong, 고예진
2nd violin : 안수경, Chloe Chan, 최수아, Max Chai
viola : Chris Choi, Ki Chung Wong, 최연아
cello : 한동윤, 김서진
double bass : 김효선