Louise Kwong

Louise Kwong’s musical achievements are recognised by being awarded one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Awards in 2019 and the Young Artist Award by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2014. 

Internationally, Louise Kwong has debuted at the Rome Opera House as Mimì in La Bohème and as Micaëla in Carmen at Caracalla Rome in 2018. She has performed in different opera houses in the world namely the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Graz Opera House of Austria. In 2017, she debuted at the National Centre of Performing Arts in Beijing as the role of Rita in opera The Dawn Here is Quiet. 

As a lyric soprano, her performed roles include Cio-cio-san in Madame Butterfly, Mimì in La Bohème, Micaëla in Carmen, Liù in Turandot, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, La Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro and Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte.

Kwong is the prize winner of numerous international competitions, namely the Second Prize, Audience Prize and the Best Soprano Prize in the 18^th International Singing Competition Ferruccio Tagliavini in Austria, the First Prize in the Singing Competition Salice d’Oro 2015 in Italy; the First Prize in the Singing Competition Città di Iseo 2015 in Italy; and the Second Prize in the 7^th International Singing Competition Bell’arte in Belgium.