Hon Ning Cheung (1998-) is a composer and chromatic harmonica player based in Luzern. Graduating from chemistry bachelor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2020, she transposed from science to music. After four years, she finished her composition bachelor at Conservatorium Maastricht(NL) with Vykintas Baltakas, and currently continuing this journey at Hochschule Luzern for master composition with Dieter Ammann and minor in orchestral conducting with Clemens Heil. As a chromatic harmonica player, she has been expanding harmonica’s repertoires through exploring its timbral possibilities and varied instrumental combination. Passionate about uncertainty and fragility in different perspectives, Hon Ning loves to explore different art forms while being exposed in various dimensions as a musician, to continue searching her expression. 

In 2021, she founded the Nefelibata New Music Collective, which she directed, composed and performed regularly to explore new concert formats together with the musicians at Conservatorium Maastricht.  Over the past four years, she has been curating annual concert episodes <Last Minutes Alive> with the collective musicians. As a harmonicist, she formed “Atemsäer Duo” with pianist Lilian Phan, and “Wolken Trio” with Phan and percussionist Colin Crandal in hopes of expanding contemporary harmonica repertories in chamber music and collaborating actively with living composers abroad. Hon Ning has premiered harmonica works by Oswald Huỳnh, Kyohei Sugihara, Riccardo Perugini, Mario Pallas, Andy Janssen, Tai Nakamura, and Ethan Blackburn. In 2023, together with Nefelibata Sinfonietta and conductor Txemi Etxebarria, she brought the Dutch premiere of the violin concerto <Fantasia> by Einojuhani Rautavaara with chromatic harmonica. 

Hon Ning actively participates in masterclasses and workshops across Europe, including Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation Masterclass with Peter Eötvös and Stefano Gervasoni, Impuls Academy Composition masterclasses with Franck Bedrossian, Francesco Filidei, Isabel Mundry, Divertimento Ensemble orchestra conducting course with Sandro Gorli, AltreVoci Ensemble Conducting Masterclass with Marco Angius, Cátedra Manuel de Falla Music, al Analysis and Composition Course with Fabián Panisello, <Sound of Wander: geografie dell’ascolto> with Lisa Streich, KlexosLab composition workshop with Alessandro Perini, Soundmine Composition Workshop with Annelies Van Parys, Jorrit Tamminga, Quentin Meurisse, and Diederik Glorieux; CEME Composition masterclass with Yair Klartag, and <Arts Letters & Numbers> composition class with Reiko Füting and Michael Harrison. She worked with Philharmonie zuidnederland Ensemble, Zuiderwind Ensemble, Mdi Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Icarus vs Muzak, Ictus Ensemble, Taller Sonoro, Chamber Choir Maastricht, Trio Quartet, Adeona Duo. Her compositions were performed in VII New Music Festival "KlexosLab" (2024, Plasencia/ES), Contemporanea Città di Udine (2023, IT), Festival de Música Española de Cádiz (2023, ES), Groningen Guitar Festival (2023, Groningen/NL),  Le concours de piano «Andrée CHARLIER» (2022, Charleroi/BE), and Ars Musica(2022, Brussels/BE).