Jet Kye Chong : Associate Artist
Jet Kye Chong (he/him) is an award-winning Perth-based
percussionist, composer and researcher. His music has been
performed throughout Australia, Asia, Canada and the USA,
premiered by the Perth Symphony Orchestra, the Irwin St
Collective, and Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)
musicians among others, including notable commissions for the
ANAM, the West Australian Orff-Schulwerk Association and for the
West Australian of the Year Awards. His string quartet "Umbral
Orbits" won the Scarlet's Fund Award, and his percussion duet
"Anticommunication" has been performed by Duo Cichorium and as
part of Canada's National Youth Orchestra Chamber Music series.
Chong has been selected for collaborative programs for the ANAM
Set, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Flinders Quartet and
the Australian Youth Orchestra, as well as a composition
residency at All That We Are in Tasmania.
As a percussionist, Chong won the Malaysia Percussion Festival
Performance Prize with his own work 'Rev 3', and is a two-time
winner of the People's Choice Award for the Vose Memorial
Concerto Prize. He has produced 5-star award-winning Fringeworld
shows in 2022 and 2023 with Taiko On (which received the 2025
Foreign Minister's Commendation from Japan), and he has toured
internationally with his band "The Hár" in the 2024 Edinburgh
Fringe Festival, as a guest with Irish Baroque, as Principal
Percussion with the Australian Youth Orchestra, and toured
nationally with the Momentum Ensemble. He recorded works of
Myburgh for Australian and UK labels, and with various ensembles
for ABC Classic.
Chong holds a Bachelor of Philosophy in Mathematics and
Statistics, and Music Specialist Studies
(Composition/Percussion), with First Class Honours. His research
thesis 'Predicting Marimba Stickings with Neural Networks' won
the 2020 Dr Vincent Harry Cooper Memorial Prize, the 2022
Statistical Society of Australia Louise Ryan Best Presentation
Award, and was recently published in the Australasian Joint
Conference in AI proceedings. Chong performs as a freelance
percussionist, taiko drummer, bodhrán and whistle player with
traditional Irish band The Hár, keys player, guest artist
(drums/pipa) with the Chung Wah Chinese Orchestra, and conductor
of the WA Medical Students Orchestra.
Biography provided by the composer