Hong Kong–born flautist Ka Wing Karen Wong is a versatile chamber and orchestral musician. A Britten Pears Young Artist 2024/25 and Rising Star of the Edinburgh International Festival 2025, Karen’s recent highlights include appearances at the BBC Proms 2026 and Aldeburgh Festival 2025.

 

Having served as Second Flute & Piccolo of the Macao Orchestra, she has performed with leading ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, The Hallé, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Northern Ballet Sinfonia, Scottish Ballet Orchestra, and Sinfonia Smith Square. She has toured with the Taipei Music Academy and Festival 2023 and the Asian Youth Orchestra. Karen is a founder of Ensemble Fioritura and a musician with Live Music Now.

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A prizewinner in international competitions, Karen received First Prize in the British Flute Society Young Artist Competition 2022, Second Prize in the Tampere Flute Fest Piccolo Competition 2022, and Third Place in the National Flute Association Piccolo Orchestral Audition Competition 2021. Her recent concerto engagements include performances with Another Chamber Orchestra (UK) and Klangkollektiv Wien (Austria), as well as appearances at the Anghiari Festival (Italy), London Handel Festival and Bach for Good Festival (UK). Her solo and chamber career has taken her across Hong Kong, Taiwan, the UK, the United States, Austria, Belgium, Italy and Germany.

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Karen graduated with Distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in both the Artist Diploma and the Orchestral Artistry Master’s, studying flute, piccolo, and traverso with Ian Clarke, Gareth Davies, Philippa Davies, Sarah Newbold, Christopher Green, and Lisa Beznosiuk. She was awarded First-Class Honours for her Bachelor of Arts in Music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, under the tutelage of Ivy Chuang.