Neo Hung started his first piano lesson at the age of six in Hong Kong and gave his first solo piano recital at 13. He entered the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts two years afterwards under the tutelage of Julie Kuok. He is currently studying piano with Dina Parakhina at the Royal College of Music in London, with a full scholarship awarded by the HKSAR government for both his outstanding academic and artistic performances. He has also been supported by Talent Unlimited since 2023, and the Keyboard Charitable Trust since 2024.
Neo made his concerto debut in Music Fest Perugia with Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1 under Alessandro Alonzi in summer 2023. He has also been invited to perform in the Amalfi Coast Music Festival, Malaga Piano Festival, RCM Keyboard Festival and SonataFest. Most recently, he has embarked on a tour across England with solo recitals in London, Bath, Bedford, Bristol, Bushey, Cambridge, High Wycombe and Oxford. He has also been invited to perform at Yale University (USA) in 2019, and venues across Hong Kong.
Neo has gained inspiration in masterclasses and lessons given by artists such as Sofya Gulyak, Niel Immelman, Juan Lago, Marina Lomazov, Gabriel Kwok, Alexandre Moutouzkine, Bélen Navarro, Jerome Rose, Eleanor Wong and Jerome Lowenthal, who lauded him as “an outstanding pianist”. He has also worked with harpsichordists Bertrand Cuiller, Menno van Delft and Robert Woolley.
Recently, Neo has been named as a prizewinner in the Liszt Society International Piano Competition 2023 in London, chaired by the renowned pianist Leslie Howard, and received an honorary mention in the final round of Festival Internacional de Piano en Malaga 2023. He is also a prizewinner in the 10th Zhongsin International Music Competition (Singapore/China), the Fifth Japan-Hong Kong International Music Competition (Japan/Hong Kong), Internationaler Bonn Klassik Klavierwettbewerb (Germany), among many others. He is a winner of numerous competitions in Hong Kong, too.
In 2018, he was invited to perform in the ‘Children’s Corner’ programme, broadcast on Radio Television Hong Kong, by the pianist Nancy Loo, after participating in a musical curated by the award-winning composer Dr Pui-Shan Cheung.
