A young yangqin player of Hong Kong, Kwok Kaying is the first postgraduate to be awarded a master degree in yangqin from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She is currently an instructor in yangqin at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, resident musician of the Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble, freelance musician of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and also served as a freelance instructor at the Hong Kong Music Office . She founded the Hong Kong Yangqin Association and is current president of this organization. She also is an active member of the Dulcimer World Association.
Kwok was born in Guangzhou , China . She studied at the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Academy and the Xinghai Conservatory of Music before she was awarded a full scholarship , based on her outstanding scholastic achievements, to study at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in 2005.
Kwok has been dedicating herself intensively to teaching and performing yangqin following her graduation from the Academy. she has since been invited by several universities in Hong Kong and Taiwan to speak on music topics In addition to concerts in Hong Kong , Taiwan ,Macao, and the Chinese Mainland , she has been invited to appear overseas at various events in Europe including those in Belgium , England, France , Germany , Hungary, Netherlands and Luxembourg.