Tsz Wun Michelle Wong (b. 2003) is a dramatic soprano who has graduated from the University of Surrey with an MMus degree in Performance in 2026 and a BMus programme in July 2024. Michelle is currently studying singing with Dr Susannah Self and Jennifer Westwood, and choral conducting with Dr Amy Bebbington. She is also a student of the Introduction to Opera Performance course at Morley College. 

  Michelle is the winner of both the Diploma group and HKPPAA scholarship group in the Hong Kong Promotion of Performing Arts Association Competition in 2023 and has been awarded choral scholarships from All Saint’s Church in Guildford since 2022. She was also awarded the Levavi Oculos Prize recently after the completion of her master’s degree, recognising her sustained and leading contribution to the music performance culture of the University of Surrey, specifically (but not limited to) the discipline of Music and Media. Her versatile singing has brought her excellent results during her studies, with a record-high grade in the school of 85% in both her Performance and Musical Theatre Module with outstanding feedback. 

  Michelle is an active performer in Guildford and London. She is involved in recitals at venues such as Holy Trinity Church, St. Martha’s Church, United Reformed Church, The Guildford Institute in Guildford, and even the Binham Priory. Michelle was featured in the Artist Spotlight hosted by NC Productions, in which she aimed to introduce the genre to those in the community who find the artform alienating. Michelle explores operatic works in different eras, ranging from eighteenth-century operas like Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice to contemporary opera like Judith Weir’s King Harald Saga during her studies. Her undergraduate and masters research, both combined performance recital and scholarly dissertation, was on Schopenhauer’s influence on Wagner’s opera and songs and the reflection of late-19th-century women’s status in Puccini’s opera, respectively.   

  Michelle also performs repertoires that she transcribes and arranges, most recently featuring her adaptation of Vivaldi’s unpublished cantata aria La farfalletta audace and her atonal, 20th-century music-inspired arrangement of the double suicide scene from the Cantonese Opera The Flower Princess. Born in Hong Kong, Michelle performed a role in bridging and incorporating Cantonese and British culture by bringing Cantonese operatic music to the UK and taking her learnings from the UK back to the singing community in Hong Kong. The arrangement intended to fuse the two distinct cultures that Michelle grew up with and introduce Cantonese opera to students and people in the local community through her performance. 

  Michelle was also the person-in-charge of The Illumino Singers in 2023, in which she collaborated with opera singer and conductor Apollo Wong to host the choirs’ choral project Innigkeit. Given that there is only one main music festival every year in Hong Kong, which schools compete against each other, this project offers a friendly environment for young amateur choristers in Hong Kong to connect and share music. Michelle was also the singing director of The White Rose Musical produced in London and Surrey in 2024, in which she supervised actors on singing techniques and singing with movements and expressions. She has also been the choir manager of the University of Surrey Chamber Choir in 2022-2025 and the University Choir in 2024-2025, in which she oversees the choir management, parts of rehearsals, and conducts ad hoc performances. 

  Michelle is currently the director of an elite petite-sized singing ensemble Vox Hominum and the director of the staff choir of her alma mater. She has also recently joined the Harlequin Chamber Choir in Guildford.