Ms CHEUNG Wai-ching Rachel (Pianist)
Awardee of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship Scheme 2011-12

Young Steinway Artist and Cliburn finalist Rachel Cheung was an early crowd favorite in the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, earning the audience award for "outstandingly lyrical" playing that showed "nobility in her interpretation" (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). In 2016, she was awarded the special prize at the New York Concert Artists Worldwide Debut Audition, which included a Carnegie Hall debut in 2018.

She is also a prize winner in the 2009 Leeds, 2010 Chopin, and 2012 Geneva International Piano Competitions. Ms. Cheung has collaborated with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Orchestra de chambre de Paris, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony and was on concert tour with the Asian Youth Orchestra. She has performed recitals at the Auditorium du Lourve in Paris, London's Steinway Hall, the Richmond Hill Center for Performing Arts in Toronto, the Robert Schumann Saal in Düsseldorf, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, among others.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Rachel graduated with first class honors at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts under the tutelage of Eleanor Wong, and later studied with Peter Frankl at the Yale School of Music, where she was awarded the Elizabeth Parisot Prize for outstanding pianists. Rachel was awarded Artist of the Year (Music) by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2019.