Louise Kwong

Louise Kwong’s musical achievements have been widely recognised. She received t he Award for Young Artist (Music) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2014, and was named one of Hong Kong’s Ten Outst anding Young Persons in 2019.

Internationally, Kwong made her debut at the Rome Opera House as Mimì in La bohème and as Micaëla in Carmen at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome in 2018. She has sung in various renowned performance venues, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Graz Opera House in Austria. In 2017, she debuted at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing in the role of Rita in opera The Dawns Here Are Quiet.

As a lyric soprano, her 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 Così fan tutte.

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