Violin · Chamber music
Yuuki Wong
Prizewinner at the Michael Hill Violin Competition
Yuuki Wong began his musical education on the piano before switching to the violin. He attended the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Oberlin Conservatory, then studied with Boris Kuschnir in Vienna, Pierre Amoyal in Lausanne and Ilya Gringolts in Zurich.
In 2007 he won second prize and a special prize at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand. He received the Prix de la Ville de Lausanne in 2011.
Wong has appeared with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. As concertmaster of the Morphing Chamber Orchestra, he contributed to Aleksandra Kurzak’s album Desire and concert broadcasts by the Metropolitan Opera.