Cheong Yew Choong holds his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate Degrees from West Virginia University (USA) under full scholarship and graduate assistantship. His teachers include Prof. Dr. Peter Amstutz and Prof. Dr. P’ng Tean Hwa. Despite hearing impairment, Yew Choong is a prizewinner of several competitions: Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Artist Piano Competition in the State of West Virginia, WVU’s Annual Young Artists Auditions and the VSA Arts’s International Young Soloists Award.

Among the highlights of solo performances are appearances at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and National Institutes of Health in Washington D.C., Thailand’s First Mozart Piano Competition and Festival, the International Piano Festival by People with Disabilities in Osaka and Vienna, UCSI International Piano Festival and Competition, Free Hand Contemporary Composers Piano Festival and KL Piano Gala Concerts.

As a scholar, Yew Choong has presented lecture recitals on historical performance practice, at the international and local conferences in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, and Switzerland (online edition). His scholarly contributions include articles about historically informed perspectives of dynamics and accents in Mahidol Music Journal and Research Publication of Bern University of the Arts. As an educator, he has played multi-faceted roles: the Chair of the UCSI University Piano Pedagogy Conference 2023, invited adjudicatorpresenter for several piano competitions and masterclasses, and a member of Mahidol Music Journal’s Editorial Board.

Yew Choong is currently Associate Professor at UCSI University Institute of Music in Kuala Lumpur.