Chloe Chua
Violin
Singaporean violinist Chloe Chua (b. 2007) began playing the violin at just 4 years of age and captured international attention when she became joint winner of the 2018 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists.
Her stunning musicality despite her young age has captured the hearts of audiences and her performances have taken her to concert halls and orchestras across the world. Highlights in the 25-26 and 26-27 season include debuts with the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, the NHK Symphony for a regional tour in Japan, with Hanna Chang at the Daejeon Festival, a New Year Gala concert with Shanghai Symphony, and Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic, Auckland Philharmonic, a recital at Wigmore Hall, among others. She toured with the SSO to Australia in 2025 (Hans Graf) and will tour with them to China in Autumn 2026 (Hannu Lintu).
Singapore Symphony (SSO) appointed Chloe to be their youngest ever Artist-In-Residence for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons. She performed to sold-out houses across 18 performances and featured in multiple recording projects during this period. Her debut album of The Four Seasons and Locatelli's Harmonic Labyrinth on the award-winning Pentatone label garnered 1.55 million streams and over 400,000 plays during its first year of release on Spotify and Apple Music respectively. Chloe's recording with SSO of the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto and Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 was released in July 2024 and reached No.1 in the Apple Music Classical top 100 chart in the first week of release. Her most recent Pentatone release - a set of complete Mozart Violin Concertos with SSO Music Director Hans Graf - was released in July 2025 and ranked three weeks in a row as world-wide No.1 on Apple Music.
Chloe was awarded the 1st prize at the 24th Andrea Postacchini Violin Competition, 3rd prize at the 2017 Zhuhai International Mozart Competition, as well as accolades at the Thailand International Strings Competition (Junior Category Grand Prize) and the Singapore National Piano & Violin Competition (1st Prize, Junior 2017).
Based in Berlin, Chloe studies with Kolja Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. She previously studied with Singapore's Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) School of Young Talents under the tutelage of Yin Ke, leader of their strings programme.
Chloe performs on a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Milan, 1753, on generous loan from the Rin Collection.
