Hong Kong  Young Steinway Artist Vanessa Wai Yin Wong was the recipient of several international awards. Among many of the awards she received since she was young, she was the youngest First Prize Winner of the Southern Highlands International Piano Competition in Australia, Second Prize Winner of the 17th Hilton Head International Piano Competition in the USA, the youngest Gold Medal winner in the 7th International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz with five special prizes. 

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Wong appeared in solo performances with a number of orchestras, among many of them were the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Canberra Symphony Orchestra of Australia, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, New Haifa Symphony Orchestra of Israel, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia of USA, and the Macao Orchestra. She has also worked alongside distinguished conductors including Edo de Waart, Edwin Outwater, John Morris Russell and Dorian Wilson. 

 

She has given recitals at major venues such as the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Salle Cortot of Paris, Steinway Hall of New York, Carnegie Hall of New York, Poly Theatres of China, and other cities such as Brisbane; Canberra; Washington D.C.; Chicago, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Egypt.   She has also appeared at various music festivals, including the Opening of the Newport International Festival in the USA, the 39th and the 46th Hong Kong Arts Festivals, the Hong Kong City Hall Virtuosi Series, the 2020 and 2022 recital series by Premiere Performance of Hong Kong. As an active chamber musician, she has collaborated with musicians such as Dan Zhu and Jamal Aliyev. She is also an active member of the Chamber Music Society of Yale Club of Hong Kong and has performed frequently with other members.

 

In 2019, Wai Yin released her debut CD: Liszt’s Transcriptions from Operas by Auber and Verdi, under the Naxos label.

 

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Wai Yin completed the highly selective Artist Diploma program at the Yale School of Music. Before that, she completed her Bachelor of Music degree with First-class honors at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and a Master of Music Degree at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. Her teachers include Gabriel Kwok, Hui Ling, Boris Slutsky, and Boris Berman. 

 

Wong was the recipient of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund, the Lady Fung Scholarship, and the Asian Cultural Council Scholarship. She was awarded a Certificate of Commendation by the Hong Kong Government in recognition of her outstanding achievements in the promotion of international arts and cultural activities.