Winner of the Singapore National Music Competition in 1985 and 1987, Ang Chek Meng went on to further his studies under a Singapore Symphony Orchestra Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, London. His teachers included Jean Harvey, Erich Gruenberg as well as members of the Amadeus Quartet. For his outstanding results, Chek Meng was awarded the Countess of Munster Trust Scholarship and graduated with honours.

A member of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra from 1991, Ang Chek Meng left to pursue his love for chamber music with the award-winning T'ang Quartet which was appointed the first Quartet-in-residence at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. There he worked with renowned artists like Paul and Martha Katz of the Cleveland Quartet, Ken Goldsmith and Norman Fischer.

As a member of the quartet, he has performed to critical acclaim at major venues like the Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood Festival, Music Mountain Chamber Series, Melbourne Festival, New Zealand Arts Festival as well as in engagements around Asia.

Ang Chek Meng is currently a member of the artist faculty at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.

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Updated on 01/06/2009