Chloe Chua

Chloe Chua was born in Singapore in 2007. She was introduced to the piano at the age of two and a half and to the violin at age four by her mother, a music educator. Her teacher was Yin Ke, who started teaching her at age four at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts^[5] and School of Young Talents String Section, until she was about 17 years old. She currently studies with Professor Kolja Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin.^[6]

She has performed at the New Virtuosi Queenswood Masterclass, the Singapore Violin Festival, and Chingay Festival.^[7]

Chua has also performed with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra,^[8] Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra,^[9] Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Russian National Youth Orchestra, Kammerorchester Basel^[10] and the China Philharmonic Orchestra.^[11] In 2018, she and Christian Li were both awarded first prize in the Junior division of the Menuhin Competition.^[3]

After her Menuhin Competition performance, she was featured in the 2018 video "Is Ling Ling a GIRL?" by YouTubers Brett Yang and Eddy Chen of TwoSet Violin, the two visited Chua in September 2020 and held a master class session on Paganiniana, a piece by Nathan Milstein based on Paganini's Caprice No. 24.^[12][13][14] Chua also took part in a "Ling Ling Workout" with Chen and Yang, released in March 2021,^[15] and in a later video, "Our Secret Plan to Get Back into the Menuhin Competition (Ft. Chloe Chua)", released in May 2021.^[16]

In 2024, Chua appeared with Scott Yoo in the PBS program Great Performances, "Now Hear This 'Rising Stars'", performing Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3.^[17]

In February 2025, she and cellist Ng Pei-Sian of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra performed Brahms’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello on their inaugural tour of Australia in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, conducted by Hans Graf.^[18] In August 2025, Chloe Chua performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rodolfo Barráez at the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore.^[19]

As of May 2025, Chua's website states that she is studying at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Kolja Blacher.^[20] Blacher is known for playing the 1730 "Tritton" Stradivarius.^[21]

Chua has played on violins such as an 1884 Vincenzo Postiglioni loaned from Peter Chew and a one-year loan on a 1625 Amati violin from Florian Leonhard Fine Violins.^[2] She currently performs on a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Milan 1753, on loan from the Rin Collection.^[22]

In a 2020 interview while in residence at the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Chua identified her favourite violinist as Itzhak Perlman and her favourite composer as Piotr Tchaikovsky; she identified the Bach Sonata No. 1 in G minor (BWV 1001) as the most difficult piece in her repertoire.^[23] In an interview in 2022, Chua updated the list of her favourite violinists to also include Hilary Hahn and Maxim Vengerov, and from the previous LP recording era, the violinist Jascha Heifetz.^[24]

Chloe Chua's album releases include:

• 2023: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Locatelli: Harmonic Labyrinth - with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra
• 2024: Butterfly Lovers & Paganini - with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra
• 2025: Mozart: Violin Concertos - with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra

• First prize winner, Junior division, Thailand International Strings Competition^[7]
• 2015: Third prize winner, Junior division, Singapore National Piano and Violin Competition^[7]
• 2016: First prize winner, Junior Category, Symphony 924 Young Talents Project^[25]
• 2017: Third prize winner, 2nd Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians Violin Group A^[4][7]
• 2017: First prize winner, Category A, 24th Andrea Postacchini Violin Competition^[4][7]
• 2017: First prize winner, Junior division, Singapore National Piano and Violin Competition^[7][26]
• 2018: First prize winner (joint 1st prize), Junior division, Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists^[3]