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.