About Music Director:
Christopher Cheng
Christopher Cheng
MM (Choral Conducting) Messiah University; CAGS (Orchestral Conducting) Messiah University; MA (Music) CUHK; PgDE (Music) HKBU; BA (Music) HKBU; DipABRSM; RSM
Cheng currently directs Hong Kong Youth Choir and City University of Hong Kong Choir, he is also a clinician and conducting teacher of Hong Kong Inter-school Choral Festival. Before his current engagements, he was a part-time lecturer at The Education University of Hong Kong.
Cheng’s conducting teachers include: Jon Washburn, Gábor Hollerung, Brady Allred, James Davey, William Weiner, Nicolas Fink, Chen Yun-hung, Dénes Szabó, Stephen Coker, Rolf Beck and Helmuth Rilling.
Repertoire of Cheng’s includes a concert version of Schönberg’s Les Misérables, complete J. S. Bach’s Lutheran Masses and six Motets, Brahms’s Requiem, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Handel’s Messiah, Dixit Dominus and Coronation Anthems, Mozart’s Requiem in D minor and Coronation Mass, Faure’s Requiem, Poulenc's Gloria, Puccini’s Messa a Quattro Voci, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Rutter's Gloria, Mass of the Children and Visions, and Basler’s Missa Kenya. He has also prepared choruses for John Rutter and Bob Chilcott.
Projects conducted by Cheng have received Hong Kong Arts Development Council Emerging Artist Grant and Project Grant multiple times, and he was a recipient of Pro Arte Orchestra Scholarship for many years.
Cheng is a finalist and the second runner-up of Asia Pacific Choral Summit Hong Kong Choral Conducting Competition 2019, and he received SCMP Student of the Year 2019 Special Mentorship Award. He captured the category champion (Musica Sacra) with a Gold with Hong Kong Youth Choir in 2016 Singapore International Choral Festival. Conducting the St. Joseph’s College Chamber Boys’ Choir, he has led the choir to three Golds in Hong Kong Inter-school Choral Festival 2019, 2020, and 2022, Category Champion, a Gold, and Creative Choreography Award in 2021 Taiwan International Choral Competition (Children Choir Class), the Outstanding Performance Award in 2022 Takarazuka International Chamber Chorus Contest, and a Gold in the Penabur International Choir Festival 2022.
He is currently a student of Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in Music Education at Boston University School of Music.