Eric Yip

Eric Yip is currently a member of the Romer String Quartet, the LENK Quartet and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. He has been giving solo and chamber recitals, as well as performing as a soloist with orchestras in countries and regions including Japan, United States, China, Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He has recently performed the Dvořák cello concerto with the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre Orchestra in Malaysia in 2023.

He had been featured at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Beare’s Premiere Music Festival chamber music concerts and as a resident artist for 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, Yip was being invited as the adjudicator of the Hong Kong Youth Music Interflows (Symphony Orchestra).

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 The Chinese University of Hong Kong for two times in 2015-2016 (Romer) and 2022-2023 (LENK).

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.​