Caleb Wong is a cellist from rural Australia who 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 his Master of Music degree with 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 third year at ANAM, he had the privilege of performing 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 Tasmania 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. He won a section cello audition at the start of 2023, and has been playing with them since July this year.