Hoi Khai-Weing

  • First Prize, Young Artiste Category, Euroasia Strings Competition 2017
  • Honourable Mention, Young Artiste Category, Euroasia Strings Competition 2016

Khai-Weing is a devoted and enthusiastic violinist hailing from Selangor, Malaysia. She has recently graduated from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music with a Bachelors of Music (Highest Distinction) under Assoc. Prof Zuo Jun. Currently, she is pursuing her Master’s at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, under the tutelage of Professor Eszter Haffner.

She is extremely passionate about chamber music and has since founded a semi-professional chamber group (@espoirquartet) during her time at YST. The group has played for masterclasses held by the Miro Quartet, Verona Quartet, Mr Curt Thompson, Ms Kam Ning and Mr Richard Harwood to name a few. They won fourth prize in the International Cecilia Competition 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. Khai-Weing was also the winner in the chamber competition in the Roundtop Music Festival, together with her trio. As a soloist, she made her solo debut at 18 together with the Selangor Symphony Orchestra, performing the 1st movement of Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto. She has also acclaimed prizes from competitions such as the Silver Award in the Young Artiste Category of the Singapore Raffles International Music Festival and 1st Prize at the Euroasia Strings Competition in Kuala Lumpur.

Her love for orchestral repertoire stemmed from the acceptance into the Malaysian Philharmonic Youth Orchestra at the age of 13 after stringent auditions and has held positions such as concertmistress and second violin principal. At 20, she was also successful in attaining a substitute musician role in the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra till present. In 2024, she was appointed as Concertmistress and Second Principal in the Roundtop Festival Institute under Maestra Delyana Lazarova and Maestro Benjamin Zander. Most recently, she was accepted into the Taipei Music Academy and Festival 2025, featuring Grammy-award conductor Fabio Luisi and esteemed musicians such as Mihaela Martin, Koichiro Harada, David Chan, Alexander Kerr and Stephen Rose.