Wei Shen-fu

Assistant Principal Sheng and instrumental class instructor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, section instructor of the Hong Kong Young Chinese Orchestra, Wei joined the HKCO in 2018 and served as Acting Principal Sheng in 2021, he took his current position in the same year. Wei graduated from the NTUA with a degree in Chinese Music under the tutelage of Jen Yen-ping and Cheng Chien-na. He later also benefitted from the coaching of many virtuosi such as Chen Yi-wei, Dong Ying, Tang Dazhi and Tang Fu.

Wei is a winner of many prizes and accolades: while he was still in high school, he won the first prize with Distinction in the Taiwan Music Competition, was awarded the title ‘The Pride of Taoyuan’ by the City of Taoyuan, and was invited to appear in an interview on the education radio of Taiwan; other prizes include ‘Budding Artist of the NTCH Taipei’, and the Gold Award in both categories of sheng and keyed sheng in the 2016 ‘HongFuBei’ International Art Festival – Chinese Sheng, held in Beijing, China.

In July 2024 and December 2022, Wei performed the sheng solo in the Symphonic Poem The Peacock at the concert of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra respectively. In September 2023, Wei has invited to perform in the Hong Kong premiere of A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. In July 2021, he performed in the world premiere of the sheng concerto Winter Hunt - symphony version at the Hong Kong Baptist University Symphony Orchestra Concert.

Wei has garnered a lot of performing experience as he has shared the concert stage with various orchestras in Taiwan. In 2015, he was selected as one of the International Youth Ambassadors to go with the Taiwan delegation on tour to Edinburgh, Ireland, Portugal and Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, serving as instrumentalist, recording engineer and performer in dance dramas. He was one of the selected musicians to represent Taiwan in overseas performances in Europe and Africa and to conduct exchange with the local senior officials, winning acclaim for his excellent work.