Ricky Yeung Wai Kit recently finished studying a doctoral degree in dizi performance at China Conservatory under the guidance of Zhang Weiliang and he is also the first dizi performance doctoral graduate in China. He concurrently teaches at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), the Music Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the SPACE Community College of University of Hong Kong. He is the Honorary Committee of the China Dizi Society, Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Bamboo Flute Society, Examiner of Hong Kong Arts Development Council and overseas member of Artistic Resource Panel of Singapore Chinese Orchestra.
Yeung is frequently engaged for various Chinese music activities in Hong Kong. In 2003 he gave his own solo recital at Lee Hysan Concert Hall, CUHK, another recital at HKAPA Concert Hall in 2010 and Beijing in 2014. Recently he presented two recitals with Guangdong Chinese Orchestra and Shanghai Chinese Orchestra in June and November 2015. In 2006 and 2010, he was invited by RTHK Radio 4 to record a solo recital twice under the Music of Friends Series.
Yeung is also an active music researcher, critic, educator and promoter of Chinese Music. He has been the guest presenter of RTHK Radio programme Music in China and has collaborated with various organizations on talks, workshops and outreach programmes. He is the co-author of Listening to Chinese Music (Commercial Press 2009). He is also a music critic for various newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei and Singapore.
Born in Hong Kong, Yeung began learning dizi with Cheung Heung Wah at the age of thirteen and was coached, at various times of his career, by many dizi virtuosi in China. Yeung was first trained at the Department of Chinese Music of the HKAPA, where he majored in dizi and was awarded a Diploma in Performing Arts (Music), before he studied at the Music Department of the CUHK. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with first class honours and a Master of Philosophy degree in Ethnomusicology under the tutelage of Yu Siu-wah. In 2010, he received a Master of Music degree in dizi performance at the HKAPA where he studied dizi with Sun Yongzhi.
In 2011, he was selected by China website “Home of Dizi Friends” and China Dizi magazine as one of the twelve “most charming dizi performers”. In 2014, he won the Gold Price (Young Professional) of the Beijing Dizi Competition.
