A native of Hong Kong, Anthony Wong began studying violin at the age of eight as the trainee of Hong Kong Government’s  Music Office where he was a student of Lau Yat-Ying. In 1985, he represented Hong Kong and performed with Hong Kong Youth Orchestra’s China Tour in Shanghai and Beijing. He then received his formal music training at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and was a student of Pang Ting-Sun. He also spent few summers to study with Professor Wang Zhang-shen of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

Wong holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in New York City where he studied violin with Lucie Robert and Burton Kaplan. He graduated from Rutgers University with a Master Degree of Music and received doctoral studies, where he studied with Arnold Steinhardt (acclaimed Guarneri String Quartet) and Hiroko Yajima (Mannes Trio). He was the recipient of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund in 1992. From 1995 to 2000, he served as the assistant principal violin for the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra in Oklahoma and served as the State Contest adjudicator.

Appearing concerts throughout Europe, Asia and United States, he performed with Asian Youth Orchestra’s  debut tour under Lord Yehudi Menuhin in 1990. Wong has participated in the Waterloo Music Festival and Grand Teton Music Festival as full scholarship recipient. He participated the performance of Mahler’s epic “Symphony of a Thousand” which marks the largest production to date by the Singapore Symphony. He performed at the prestigious Carnegie Hall as a part of  “the Rutgers in New York” series in the spring of 2005.

He was a member of Hong Kong Sinfonietta and is currently the conductor of the senior string orchestra at CCC Kai Wan Primary School. Wong leads the school orchestra to take top prizes at the Hong Kong School Music Festival in 2002, 2004 and 2005.  He is on the violin faculty at Hong Kong Baptist University and taught at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan . Last summer he was invited to participate the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival in California which featured maestro Kent Nagano, Vladimir Feltsman and Marc-Andre Hamelin.