Stella Wong has won a full scholarship from Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund for her Master degree of Music in Piano Performance from Indiana University (Bloomington, U.S.A.), and she was a student of Distinguished Piano Professor Menahem Pressler, who was the 5th generation musical heir of Beethoven. Before that, she got the Bachelor Degree of Arts (Music), with first class honors, from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and she studied with Dr. Mary Wu. She has also learnt from some other world-renowned teachers, including Victor Rosabaum, Jerome Rose, Mikhail Olenyev and Jenny Zakharyeva etc.
The other awards she has won include Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship, Kunkle and Pommerenke Grand Scholarship, C. F. Hu Postgraduate Memorial Scholarship, Indiana University Scholarship, Bernard Van Zuiden Music Prize, S.C. Leung Music Prize, Lord Fulton Memorial Prize, Bank of East Asia Golden Jubilee Scholarship and Academic Creativity Award.
She is a specialist on topics of piano pedagogy and she often gives lectures and workshops in different universities. She has also been invited to be a jury member for piano examinations in universities as well as to serve as an adjudicator in many prestigious piano competitions.
She is currently a piano instructor in The Education University of Hong Kong, and also the chairman of Hong Kong International Piano Pedagogy Association.
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