Caleb Wong is an Australian cellist from Gundagai who began learning the cello from Takao Mitzushima and then studied under Professor Uzi Wiesel for most of his pre-college years. In 2016, he studied for three years at the Australian National Academy of Music with Howard Penny before completing a Bachelor of Music with Honours at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music under Professor Richard Narroway. In 2023, he graduated with a Master of Music degree under the tutelage of Professor Hans Jensen at the Bienen School of Music.
In his first year at ANAM, Caleb was the co-recipient of the Most Outstanding Performance in a Solo Recital award. During his time at ANAM he performed the Debussy Cello Sonata with Kathryn Stott which was broadcast on ABC Classic FM. He was a finalist in the 2016 and 2018 ANAM Concerto Competitions, taking first place in 2018 performing Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. He played as concert soloist in The Australian Ballet production Verve where he performed Rococo Variations by Tchaikovsky with orchestra in both Melbourne and Sydney.
At the start of 2020, he performed as a soloist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra performing Beethoven Triple Concerto with Emily Sun and Aura Go. In his final years at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Bienen School of Music he was a concerto competition winner at both respective schools. He is also a lover of chamber and orchestral music, playing for many years with the Australian Youth Orchestra, and toured with them throughout Europe and Asia in 2019 as principal cellist.
Photo courtesy of Sunkyoung Aizenstros.
