Assistant Artistic Director and Resident Conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Chew was the Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Macao Chinese Orchestra (2023-24 season). Chew joined the HKCO in 2002 as Assistant Conductor and took his current position in September 2022. Chew plays an active and diverse role that covers assisting in orchestral season planning and preparation for numerous concerts. In recent years, Chew is committed to the cross-disciplinary cooperation between Chinese music and other different sectors and media, including “Hins Cheung X HKCO” in 2020, and in 2018, Chew conducted the “Listening to Nature” concert, which had brought the music of Malaysia rainforest into Chinese music. Chew was widely acclaimed by the music circle and media when he led the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra on the debut tour to Malaysia in 2024. Chew guest-conducted the Taipei Chinese Orchestra in the concert “Zhuolu & Dreaming of Butterflies” in 2023, and the Singapore Chinese Orchestra in the concert “A Nanyang Musical Voyage II” in 2004and has received rave reviews. 

To promote the development of local creations, Chew re-launched HKCO’s “Music from the Heart”, a stage for original composition, inspiring many outstanding local composers since 2015. Since 2007, Chew has conducted The Hong Kong Drum Festival concert for over 10 consecutive years. His work Let the Thunder of Drums Roll VII becomes the Festival standard repertoire. 

Conducting aside, Chew’s works have characteristic features that demonstrate his Southeast Asian cultural heritage. His work Harken Back to Zhou is selected as one of the “100 Chinese Music Classics Select” by HKCO. He was second runner-up in the International Competition for Chinese Orchestral Compositions 2000 (HK) and winner of the Outstanding Composition Award in the Chinese Music Competition 2002 organised by the Council for Cultural Affairs in Taiwan. Graduated from the Southeast Missouri State University with a double bachelor’s degree in cello performance and computer science, and the University of South Carolina with a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting, Chew was formerly the Music Director of the Professional Cultural Center Orchestra of Malaysia. 

Chew is also committed to the education and perpetuation of Chinese music. Since 2011, Chew has been giving lectures for The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts on Chinese orchestral conducting. From 2003 to 2010,he held a concurrent post of the conductor of the Hong Kong Junior Chinese Orchestra.

Guest Resident Conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and a dynamic contemporary young conductor, Sun Peng is the champion of the first International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music and the winner of the “Best Interpretation of Works of Hong Kong”. He currently serves as the Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Wuxi Chinese Orchestra, an Associate Professor of Conducting at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, appointed under the Talent Introduction Scheme, and Master's Supervisor.

In 2011, at the first International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music, Sun Peng was placed first and received the Prize for “Best Interpretation of Works of Hong Kong”. Previously, Sun was the first Resident Conductor of the Macao Chinese Orchestra (2016-2019), the first Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Chinese orchestra of the Shanxi Song and Dance Troupe (2014-2015), and the first Guest Assistant Conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra (2011-2012).

Sun was immersed in music from an early age, training successively under Professor Sun You and Professor Wen Jialiang. Introduced to conducting by Professor Hong Xia, Sun received postgraduate training in Chinese Conducting under Professor Yan Huichang—a renowned educator and the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor for Life of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra—graduating with distinction. In 2019, he was a government-funded Visiting Scholar at the Department of Symphony and Opera Conducting of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory where his supervisor was Professor Stanislav Dyachenko, completing his residency with high honors. 

As one of the few contemporary conductors holding professional credentials and extensive experience in both Chinese and Western orchestral conducting, Sun has established successful collaborations with numerous professional Chinese orchestras and symphony orchestras both domestically and internationally. He has frequently been invited to baton-lead the opening and closing ceremonies of major national, provincial, and municipal cultural projects and arts festivals. With a remarkable track record, he has curated and conducted hundreds of feature concerts and spearheaded the premieres of over a hundred musical works. Furthermore, as a principal creator, he has conceptualized and conducted multiple projects supported by the China National Arts Fund, and has served as a juror for The Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music. Sun is a highly accomplished young conductor possessing both profound theoretical knowledge and rich practical expertise.

Rupert Woo Pak Tuen was the first Master in Conducting of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) in 2012. He won Second Prize in the 2nd International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music, he was also the winner of the Outstanding Young Conductor in Hong Kong Award, and the Audience Award for the Most Popular Conductor. In 2024, he was honored with the “Hong Kong Young Musician Award” by the Organizing Committee of the Hong Kong Music and Dance Sector Celebrating the 75th Anniversary. In the same year, the commissioned work Eager to Fly, premiered under his baton by the Hong Kong Young Chinese Orchestra, won the award for “Best Serious Music Composition by a Young Composer” from the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH). In 2025, he was selected for the China National Arts Fund's "Training Program for Young Conductors." Woo has been appointed by the HKSAR Government as a "Star Mentor" (Chinese Music Sector) for the Strive and Rise Programme for consecutive years, promoting ensemble music culture and a positive learning mindset among youth. He has also been invited as a guest conductor by the Education Bureau and the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau for multiple consecutive years to direct the Joint School Chinese Orchestra, bringing together students from various schools across Hong Kong. He previously served as a Guest Instructor in Conducting, Resident Conductor of the Conservatory’s Chinese Orchestra, and Postgraduate Conducting Instructor at the Tianjin Conservatory of Music. He has also been invited as a guest conductor for the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, the Macao Chinese Orchestra, the Henan National Music Orchestra, as well as the Academy Chinese Orchestra and the Academy Symphony Orchestra of HKAPA. 

Woo holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2005), a Bachelor of Music (Hons) in banhu performance from HKAPA (2008), and a Master of Music in banhu and gaohu performance from HKAPA (2010).

Through a public recruitment process in 2018, Woo joined the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as Assistant Conductor (Education and Outreach), primarily responsible for conducting the Hong Kong Young Chinese Orchestra. Over the years, he has conducted and curated the "Preservation and Perpetuation of the Classics" concert series. Woo has also conducted the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra's Australia tour in 2023, the School Culture Day Concerts, the China National Arts Fund-subsidized project “Trail of the Blue Dragon”, and the "Silken Notes of the Pipa" Community Concert, among other notable performances.

Yim Hok Man is a renowned percussionist with more than seventy years of performing experience. He is Associate Director of The HKCO Orchestral Academy. He was a percussionist with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra for twenty-two years before he joined the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in 1984. He is also Vice President of the Percussion Society under the auspices of the Chinese Musicians’ Association, a visiting professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the China Conservatory of Music and the Shenyang Conservatory of Music. He also teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Musicians trained by him can be found in various parts of the world. For more than half a century, Yim has made substantial contribution to percussion music in both China and Hong Kong. He has consummate knowledge in a comprehensive range of Chinese and Western percussion music, from performance to teaching, music composition, and research. His performing experience and repertoire, his efforts in carrying on traditions, assimilating cultures of the East and the West, as well as attention to development and innovation in percussive art demonstrate his artistic virtuosity and solid cultural insights. He has gone on touring performances to dozens of cities on four continents of the world, and has received unanimous acclaim from audiences, music critics, and the media alike. 

Yim’s solo album Master of Chinese Percussion – Yim Hok-man (1) is regarded as a quintessential representation of the art of percussion, and is released worldwide. It has become the benchmark for the testing of amplifiers and the functioning of sound equipment as adopted by audiophiles and audio manufacturers. It also won the recommendation of a U.S. audio magazine as an outstanding masterpiece by one of the world’s five greatest percussionists. 

On the celebration of the 60th National Day of the People’s Republic of China in 2009, Yim was honoured by the Guangzhou Daily as one of the “Top Artists from China since 1949”. In recognition of his distinguished contribution, he was presented with a Commendation Certificate by the Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2005. He was awarded ‘Artist of the Year’ by the Hong Kong Artists’ Guild in 1999.