Hong Kong-born flautist Ka Wing Karen Wong is a versatile chamber and orchestral musician. In addition to being a Britten Pears Young Artist for 2024/25, she has worked with The Hallé, the London Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Smith Square (2023/24, formerly Southbank Sinfonia), Northern Ballet Sinfonia, Scottish Ballet Orchestra, Devon Baroque Orchestra, Orion Orchestra, Jersey Chamber Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Hong Kong Sinfonietta. She has also performed side-by-side with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. She had been on concert tours with the Taipei Music Academy and Festival 2023 and Asian Youth Orchestra. She is a founder of Ensemble Fioritura, as well as a musician of Live Music Now.
Karen won 1st Prize in British Flute Society Young Artist Competition 2022, 2nd Prize in Tampere Flute Fest Piccolo Competition 2022 and 3rd place in National Flute Association Piccolo Orchestral Audition Competition 2021. Her recent concerto engagements include those with the Another Chamber Orchestra (UK), Klangkollektiv Wien (Austria), at the Anghiari Festival (Italy), London Handel Festival, and the Bach for Good Festival (UK). Her solo and chamber career has brought her to Hong Kong, Taiwan, the UK, the US, Austria, Belgium, Italy and Germany.
Karen graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Distinction in both the Artist Diploma and Orchestral Artistry Masters, studying flute, piccolo and traverso with Ian Clarke, Gareth Davies, Philippa Davies, Sarah Newbold, Christopher Green and Lisa Beznosiuk. She was awarded first-class honour for her Bachelor of Arts in Music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, under the tutelage of Ivy Chuang.
In recognition of her academic and music achievements, she received Guildhall School Concert Recital Diploma for exceptional performance, Continuo Foundation Award for Students of Historical Performance and is an Ian Fleming Award holder and a Guildhall Scholar.
Apart from music, Karen is a coffee enthusiast. She holds City and Guilds: Certificate of International Award of Barista Skills and has achieved certification in Brewing Foundation & Intermediate by the Specialty Coffee Association.
