Margie Tong

Margie Tong is currently teaching at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She is also President of the Percussive Arts Society (Hong Kong Chapter), and endorser of Tycoon Percussion.

Tong graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts where she trained at the School of Music. Between 1994 and 1997, she studied at the Royal College of Music in London on The Standard Chartered Bank Scholarship (1994), The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music Fund (1994) and The Croucher Charitable Trust (1996). In 1995, Tong performed Kurka’s Marimba Concerto as a soloist with the RCM Sinfonia. In the same year, she won the Sullivan and Farrar Prize (1995) and the British Resume Prize (1995).

In 2004, Tong performed in the world premiere of Opiume in Singapore and at the New Vision Arts Festival in Hong Kong. Also at the same NVAF, she was commissioned to compose and perform new percussion works inspired by the sculptures of the exhibition, Dialogue – Chiming by Ren Rong, a renowned visual artist from mainland China. In 2006, Tong performed in the world premiere of The 11th Rib by writer-dancer, Helena Wong Pik-wan, at the Fringe Art Festival in Edinburgh. In 2009, she gave two percussion recitals at the Hong Kong Arts Centre and the HKAPA. In 2011, she gave a recital entitled Pulsation at the Sheung Wan Civic Centre with a Hong Kong Art Development Council grant. Other than these, she also performed in pop concerts as a feature artist and in world tours as a member of a group. In 2013, she gave percussion music clinics and workshops across Asia. She founded the percussion group, ‘Run-around Cajon Ensemble’, in the same year, which was invited to perform in many percussion competitions in Hong Kong as well as in other parts of the world. The Ensemble is dedicated to promoting percussion music by giving street performances and workshops. Tong created the percussion music for When Petals Fall in Serenity by Law Wing Fai, and performed it in Hong Kong (2014) and Taipei (2015) at the Hong Kong Week Festival. In 2015, she was on the Preparatory Committee of the Percussive Arts Society (Hong Kong Chapter). In 2017, Tong visited several cities in Brazil and Peru as a study tour of Latino percussion music. In 2018, she was invited to perform in the 9th Shenzhen International Percussion Culture Festival.