Dr Samuel Wong is the Artistic DIrector and Pipa player of TheTENG COmpany.

He is author of the books “Impressions of a Pipa Player” (2003), “QI: An Instrumental Guide to the Chinese Orchestra” (2005). He is also the recipient of the Outstanding Young Persons of Singapore Award 2009, the JCCI Singapore Foundation Culture Award 2009, the Henry Worthington Scholarship, the Hokkien Huay Kuan’s Arts and Cultural Bursary, the Singapore Institute of Management Teaching Excellemce Award 2012 and the Ngee Ann Polytechnic 50th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Award for Arts and Culture.

His Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology is from the University of Sheffield.