Chloe Chua

Artist

Birthday January 7, 2007

Birth Sign Capricorn

Birthplace Singapore

Age 17 years old

Nationality Singapore

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1753

She currently performs on a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Milan 1753, on generous loan from the Rin Collection.

1884

Chua has played on violins such as an 1884 Vincenzo Postiglioni loaned from Dr. Peter Chew and a one-year loan on a 1625 Amati violin from Florian Leonhard Fine Violins.

2007

Chloe Chua (蔡珂宜; pinyin: Cài Kēyí) (born 7 January 2007) is a Singaporean violinist.

2018

She is the first prize winner in the Junior division of the 2018 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists alongside Christian Li in Geneva, Switzerland.

She is also the winner of the 24th Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in Category A. ,and the Artist-In-Residence of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons

From Singapore, Chloe Chua was originally introduced to the violin at age four and to the piano at two and a half years by her mother, who is a music educator.

Her teacher is Yin Ke, who started teaching her at age four at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and School of Young Talents String Section.

She has performed across the world in countries such as the U.K., Italy, China, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and in festivals such as the New Virtuosi Queenswood Masterclass and the Singapore Violin Festival, and Chingay Festival.

Chua has also performed with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Russian National Youth Orchestra, Kammerorchester Basel and the China Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2018, Chua and Christian Li were both awarded first prize in the Junior division of the Menuhin Competition.

After her Menuhin Competition performance was featured in the 2018 video "Is Ling Ling a GIRL?"

2020

by music YouTubers Brett Yang and Eddy Chen of TwoSet Violin, the two visited Chua in September 2020 and held a master class session on the piece Paganiniana composed by violinist Nathan Milstein from The Caprice No.24 of Paganini.

She also took part in a "Ling Ling Workout" with Chen and Yang, released in March 2021, and a later video: “Our Secret Plan to Get Back into the Menuhin Competition (Ft. Chloe Chua)” released in May 2021.