Wong Sum Ho

Wong Sum Ho is currently a huqin virtuoso with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. He is an awardee of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship (2019-20).

Wong graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree with first class honours, with a double major in erhu and gaohu under Wong On-yuen and Yu Qiwei. He received training of huqin under Hsin Hsiao-hung at a young age. During his studies, he was awarded the Cecil Leong Scholarship (2015-16) and First Initiatives Music Scholarship (2016-17), and was the winner of the 2016-17 Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Concerto Trial. Since 2015, Wong has been Concertmaster of the Yao Yueh Chinese Music Association Orchestra.

Wong gave the world premiere of Yu Lefu’s gaohu suite, Infinite Time (Guang Nian Wu Xian), at the Lang Lang Concert Hall of the Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Guangzhou, in November 2019.

Source: Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra