Guest Resident Conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Sun Peng is serving as Principal Conductor and Musical Director of Wuxi Chinese Orchestra. He is also Associate Professor in Conducting at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, appointed under the Talent Introduction Scheme. Previously, Sun was the first Resident Conductor of the Macao Chinese Orchestra (2016 –2019), the first Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Chinese orchestra of the Shanxi Song and Dance Troupe (2012 – 2014) and the first Guest Assistant Conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra (2011 – 2012).

Sun was exposed to music at an early age and successively trained under Professor Sun You and Professor Wen Jialiang. Initiated by Professor Yu Hongxia in conducting, Sun received postgraduate training in Chinese Conducting under Professor Yan Huichang, an educator and also the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor for Life of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and graduated with flying colours. In 2019, he was a government-funded Visiting Scholar at the Department of Symphony and Opera Conducting of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory where his supervisor was Professor Stanislav Dyachenko. He completed his attachment with flying colours.

Sun Peng has worked with numerous orchestras, virtuosi and composers both in China and overseas, conducting hundreds of concerts in recent years. In 2011, at the first International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music held by HKCO, Sun Peng was placed first among 55 contestants and received the Prize for ‘Best Interpretation of Works of Hong Kong’. Sun successively conducted the HKCO concert ‘Champions in Concert’ in 2013, ‘Have Dizi, Will Travel’ in 2015 and ‘White Mountains, Black Waters – The Rustic Landscape of Northeastern China’ in 2019 – the first concert with the theme of Northeast China in the history of HKCO. Recent concert highlights include: Star Gazing and Seven Mindscapes (2023), A Musical Journey of Cathy (2023), Pastoral Harmony (2024), and Realms (2025). Since 2024, he has been conducting ‘Music from the Heart’, which has expanded its reach to the Greater Bay Area and beyond.

Beyond conducting, Sun Peng is also an accomplished educator. In 2012, he won the Gold prize at the 2012 Festival of Traditional Music for Liaoning Arts Colleges, 8 gold and 2 silver awards for his leadership of the Shenyang Conservatory of Music Northern Folk Orchestra, and a Gold prize at a national arts competition for university students.

Yim Hok Man is a renowned percussionist with more than sixty years of performing experience. He is Associate Director of The HKCO Orchestral Academy. He was a percussionist with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra for twenty-two years before he joined the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in 1984. He is also Vice President of the Percussion Society under the auspices of the Chinese Musicians’ Association, a visiting professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the China Conservatory of Music and the Shenyang Conservatory of Music. He also teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Musicians trained by him can be found in various parts of the world. For more than half a century, Yim has made substantial contribution to percussion music in both China and Hong Kong. He has consummate knowledge in a comprehensive range of Chinese and Western percussion music, from performance to teaching, music composition, and research. His performing experience and repertoire, his efforts in carrying on traditions, assimilating cultures of the East and the West, as well as attention to development and innovation in percussive art demonstrate his artistic virtuosity and solid cultural insights. He has gone on touring performances to dozens of cities on four continents of the world, and has received unanimous acclaim from audiences, music critics, and the media alike. 

Yim’s solo album Master of Chinese Percussion – Yim Hok-man (1) is regarded as a quintessential representation of the art of percussion, and is released worldwide. It has become the benchmark for the testing of amplifiers and the functioning of sound equipment as adopted by audiophiles and audio manufacturers. It also won the recommendation of a U.S. audio magazine as an outstanding masterpiece by one of the world’s five greatest percussionists. 

On the celebration of the 60th National Day of the People’s Republic of China in 2009, Yim was honoured by the Guangzhou Daily as one of the “Top Artists from China since 1949”. In recognition of his distinguished contribution, he was presented with a Commendation Certificate by the Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2005. He was awarded ‘Artist of the Year’ by the Hong Kong Artists’ Guild in 1999.