
Ng Cheuk-yin is a composer, music producer, sheng performer and a cappella artist. Yin is the Co-Artistic Director of Yat Po Singers, Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s first Artist Associate and music director of the fusion group SIU2. After receiving a post-graduate degree from the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he went on to study Japanese at the International Christian University in Tokyo and Jazz Music at Codarts in the Netherlands.
In 2012, Yin received Award for Best Artist from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. In 2009, 2013 and 2022, Yin received the Best Serious Composition in CASH Golden Sail Music Awards by the theatrical choral concert Rock Hard, double sheng concerto Before the City Collapses and Chinese orchestral work Ji respectively. His choral work Singing Voices of the world was awarded twice the CASH Golden Sail Most Performed Works Award (Serious Music). His pop song composed for Hins Cheung Centenary Tree received ‘Audience's Favourite Song’ in the Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation 2018.
Yin’s orchestral works include drumset concerto Fly, percussion concerto White; Chinese orchestral works include Tang Resonating, zhonghu concerto Big Tree and sanxian concerto Over the Mountains etc, his a cappella theatre works include Rock Hard, Om Encounter, Love Death and Everything In-between and This Victoria Has No Secrets and HKCO x Yat Po Singers concert ‘Herbal, Vocal or Motional?’.
Other works by Yin include Playground, a fusion orchestra video performance commissioned by No Limits of the Hong Kong Arts Festival; Journey of Soul, a crossover project by Cantonese opera singer Yuen Siu-fai and Pop singer Hins Cheung; music for grand dance drama L’Amour immortel, White Snake; dance drama for families The Kids in Rainbow Jerseys, A Sea of Smiling LT Ducks; Hong Kong Children's Choir's 40th anniversary musical A Tale from the Magical Beanland; Naamyam Music Theatre Sing Along with Loklok at the International Arts Carnival 2022; film score for the McDull movie, Pork of Music; choral works Singing Voices of the World, Music of Love and Ears in Heaven, and pop songs Under the Cherry Blossom Tree and Centenary Tree by Hins Cheung and Can’t Get Happy by Eason Chan. Yin has released his a cappella albums Single Singers and two are better than one, and launched the ‘Yat Yat Yat Kids Song’ NFT project and virtual music group TWINKLE.