Conductor | educator | composer
Biography
Award-Winning Conductor, Educator and Internationally Published Composer.
Tracy Wong is an advocate for music education and composition.
Dr. Tracy Wong is a Malaysian-Canadian choral conductor, music educator, composer, vocalist, and pianist. Dr. Wong is passionate about helping choral leaders and educators to provide unique experiences for their singers and students through collaborative commissions, customized workshops, festivals, and artist residencies. She does this through focusing on the balance of performance practice considerations, vocal and acoustic explorations, and choral artistry and heart.
Currently residing in Ontario, Canada, Dr. Wong has been appointed to the Eileen Mercier Professorship in Choral Music at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Music where she is an assistant professor, leads choral ensembles (Laurier Singers and Concert Choir) and mentors choral conducting students. Previously at Western University, she conducted Chorale and Les Choristes ensembles and taught choral conducting. She holds a Doctor in Musical Arts and Master in Music Performance (Choral Conducting) from the University of Toronto under the tutelage of Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt, and a Bachelor of Music (Piano Performance) from the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is a two-time recipient of the 2016 & 2017 Elmer Iseler National Graduate Fellowship in Choral Conducting and a nominee of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting. She also holds teaching awards from McMaster University (2018-19 McMaster University Student Union Teaching Award) and Western University (2024-25 Vice-Provost (Academic Programs) Award for Excellence in Collaborative Teaching).
As a composer-arranger, Dr. Wong advocates for repertoire-based music education and her choral works support the development of vocal technique, musicianship skills, and artistry. Featured in numerous reading sessions and international choral festivals, her music reflects the blend of different lived experiences, languages, and musical elements that continue to influence her compositional writing. In 2020, she launched the “Tracy Wong Series” (exclusively distributed by Graphite Publishing) that features her self-published choral works and those of other composer-arrangers. She was the 2023-2024 Composer-in-residence of Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the 2019 Canadian Composer Feature for the Canadian Kodály Journal, Alla Breve. Her music is also published by Oxford University Press, ICC Publishing House (distributed by Beckenhorst Press), Hinshaw Music, and Cypress Choral Music.
In research work, Dr. Wong has contributed to Choral Repertoire by Women Composers (GIA Publications, Inc.) and Resurrecting Song: A Pathway Forward for the Choral Art in the Time of Pandemics (Routledge Publishing). Her writing has also been published by the International Federation of Choral Music, Kodály Society of Canada, and the American Choral Directors Association. Dr. Wong is the co-author of the “Choral Connections” column for the Canadian Music Educator Journal, alongside Dr. Mark Ramsay.
Dr. Wong’s strong commitment to choral organizations is reflected in her work as Co-Conductor of the 2025 American Choral Directors Association National Conference (Southeast Asian Immersion Choir), Conductor of the 2024 Organization of American Kodály Educators (Concert Treble Choir) and the 2024 British Columbia Youth Choir, keynote speaker for the 2024 Kodály Australia National Conference, Co-Conductor of the 2023 Asia Pacific Youth Choir (International Federation of Choral Music), atelier leader of Choralies 2025 (France) and Europa Cantat Junior 2023 (Flanders/Belgium), former Conductor of the Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir (Kitchener, Ontario), and singer with Babεl and Exultate Chamber Singers (Toronto).
Dr. Wong continues to actively collaborate with choral organizations in North America and internationally on conducting events, competition adjudications, workshops/clinics, commissioned projects, and residences.
Tracy Wong
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Juliette Lai
Juliette Lai was awarded the prestigious Federal Scholarship by the Malaysian Government to further her studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama from where she graduated, winning prizes for Best All-Round Student and for Harmony & Counterpoint.
While Head of the Music Department at the Malaysian Teachers College in Johor Bahru (Malaysia), she also served as Chairman of Committees for Curriculum Planning for Malaysian Teachers Colelges & Schools as well as the Chief Examiner for the Malaysian O-Level (Secondary School) Music Examinations.
Vivian Chua
Vivian Chua studied piano and violin at the Royal College of Music London from September 1994 to July 1996. She transferred to the Royal Academy of Music London in September 1996 to continue with her piano professor Frank Wibaut where she graduated with honours in piano performance in 1998.
Vivian’s first foray into composition began by being one of six young composers for the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra’s (MPO) Young Composers Forum and this resulted in ‘Water – Moods and Reflections’ for chamber orchestra, premiered on 30 March 2003 at the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas conducted by Kevin Field.
Geneviene Wong
Geneviene Wong Jen-Pei graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly known as Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD), Scotland) with First Class Honours and received the “Rhona Reid Scholarship” to pursue the MMus (Performance) in Piano Accompaniment with Jean Hutchison. Upon completion of the Masters, she was awarded the “Broadwood Junior Fellowship for Piano Accompaniment” at the RSAMD.
In Glasgow, she accompanied the Glasgow Youth Choir and the Glasgow Philharmonic Male Voice Choir, performing in various venues throughout Britain, Germany and the Czech Republic.