Eric Yip

Yip is currently a member of the Romer String Quartet, the LENK Quartet, the Victoria Trio and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. He has high acclaims playing solo and chamber recitals in Japan, United States, China, Taiwan and Malaysia and also as a soloist with different orchestras in Taiwan, Malaysia and Hong Kong. He has recently performed the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre Orchestra in Malaysia in 2023.

 

He had been featured in the Hong Kong Arts festival, Beare’s Premiere Music Festival chamber music concerts and as a resident artist in the 2nd Toolbox International Creative Academy. He was the cello principal in the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in 2010 and a member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra in 2008.

 

Besides being a performer, he was also being invited by the LCSD to hold cello masterclasses in the Hong Kong Youth Music Camp in 2016 and 2017 respectively and was the guest conductor of the Ipoh Strings. In 2022, he was being invited as the adjudicator of the Hong Kong Youth Music Interflows (Symphony Orchestra).

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He has been on the faculty of Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Hong Kong Education University since 2020 and 2023 respectively. He was invited to be the resident ensemble for Hong Kong Chinese University for two times in 2014-2015 (Romer) and 2022-2023 (Lenk). He was invited to be the guest conductor of Ipoh Strings in Malaysia in 2019.

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Yip was a recipient of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Dance and Music Fund for his Master’s degree of Music in the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Prior to the CCPA, He graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. His main teachers were Chai Hon Fong, Ray Wang, John Sharp and Richard Hirschl.

 

 

As a composer, his compositions has been performed in Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, City Hall Theatre, Grand hall of Hong Kong University, Chinese University Lee Hysan Concert Hall, Shaw Auditorium of University of Science and Technology. He is also an active arranger. He has rearranged compositions for Romer String Quartet and the Cellistra.