Recent winner of the Adolfo Betti Prize, Verdehr Trio Award, violinist Yip-Wai Chow is currently on the roster of Fermata Chamber Soloists and Musicus Soloist Hong Kong, and he is currently a candidate of the Advanced Diploma of the Eastman School of Music.

Yip-Wai has always been an avid chamber musician. He previously served as the violinist of the award-winning Cong Quartet (2020-2022), Montclaire String Quartet (2019 - 2020), and most recently the Klotski Trio of the Verdehr Trio Award Fellowship where he study and perform selected pieces from the repertoire that was commissioned by the genre-setting Verdehr Trio.

Yip-Wai enjoys playing a diverse and ever-growing set of repertoire, ranging from Haydn string quartets to commissioned works by contemporary composers including Tod Machover, Caroline Shaw and Kevin Puts. YipWai has also collaborated with artists from different genres to create cross-media performances - notable projects include Earshot (2021), Anti-playground (2021), and Shuffle Dimensions (2022).

Aside from Yip-Wai’s performing career, he also finds inspiration from sharing his musical journey as Artist-in-Residence of universities, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong and West Virginia State University, where he had close interactions with students at a collegiate level, through chamber music masterclasses, collaborated performances, and also consultations on students’ compositions.

Besides pursuing chamber music, Yip-Wai also appeared as a soloist with the Eastman Philharmonia,  Butler Philharmonic and the Hong Kong Medical Association Orchestra. He has also served as a guest principal player in the Ohio Valley Symphony, Gustav Mahler Orchestra of Hong Kong, CODA Ensemble, and festival orchestras in Colorado College Music Festival, the Heifetz Institute, and Music Academy of the West.

Yip-Wai’s philosophy of music making is heavily influenced by his present and former teachers, Robin Scott and Ayano Ninomiya, Charles Castleman members of Quatuor Danel, as well as Luc-Marie Aguera. His dedication in music is recognized and rewarded with prizes from numerous competitions including the Kreutzer Music Competition, French Music Competition, the MTNA National Competition, Brookline Concerto Competition and the Japan-Hong Kong International Competition, awarded during his studies at the Netherlands String Quartet Academie (NSKA), and his pursuits of Master’s degree at the New England Conservatory and Bachelor’s degree at the Eastman School of Music.