Tsz Wun Michelle Wong is a dramatic soprano who is pursuing the MMus degree in Performance at the University of Surrey (the No.1 university in the UK for Music in two national league tables) after graduating from the BMus programme in July 2024, studying with Jennifer Snapes. Her versatile singing brought her excellent results during her studies with recently a record high grade in the school of 85% in both her Performance and Musical Theatre Module with outstanding feedback. She is also 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. Michelle is an active performer in Guildford and London. She is involved in recitals at venues in Guildford such as Holy Trinity Church, St. Martha’s Church, United Reformed Church, The Guildford Institute, etc. She is also an artist who features 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 research, a combined performance recital and scholarly dissertation, was on Schopenhauer’s influence on Wagner’s opera and songs, and she is recently preparing her Masters research on Puccini and Verismo. 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also performs repertoires that she transcribes and arranges, most recently featuring her adaptation of Vivaldi’s unpublished cantata aria La farfalletta audace and her atonal, 20th-century music-inspired arrangement of the double suicide scene from the Cantonese Opera The Flower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 is 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. The theme of the project is inspired by German Romanticism, which Michelle encountered during her first year at Surrey.  Michelle was also the singing director of The White Rose Musical produced in London and Surrey in 2024. She has also been the choir manager of the University of Surrey Chamber Choir since 2022 and the University Choir since September 2024, in which she oversees the choir management, parts of rehearsals, and conducts ad hoc performances.