Harmonica Tak-wai CHENG is an internationally renowned Sheng performer. He currently serves as the Master's Program Supervisor at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Senior Advisor of the Sheng Professional Committee of the Chinese Ethnic Orchestra Association, Advisor of the Singapore Sheng Association, and Advisor of the Hong Kong Sheng Association. He was the Principal Sheng player of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra for 30 years (1985-2014).

Cheng has performed at music festivals around the world and his concerts have graced famous concert halls in places such as Sydney, New York, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and Beijing. His profound skills and superb performance techniques have earned him universal acclaim from both domestic and international media. The World News in Beijing commented that the beauty of his tone and the precision of his technique left the audience in awe.

Cheng has collaborated with the China National Symphony Orchestra, China Broadcasting Traditional Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, and Qingdao Symphony Orchestra. His repertoire includes classic pieces such as "Peacock," "Qian Ling," and "Du."  His major performances have been recorded and released on the 2012 album "The Best Sheng Master of China - Zheng Dehui" by the Chinese record label.

In addition to his performance activities, Cheng is also dedicated to arranging compositions and teaching. In the 1990s, he learned composing with maestros Zhu Jian'er and Chen Gang, and collaborated with Dr. Jade Yau  to arrange the large-scale sheng concertos "Sketches of Qian Ling" and "Sunshine over Tashkurgan," which have been incorporated into the graduate curricula of music schools both domestically and abroad. He has also authored works such as "36 Reeds Sheng Basic Technique Exercises" and "36 Reeds Sheng Teaching Method."

Cheng has worked extensively with the renowned sheng maker Zhao Hongliang, widely applying their 42-reed sheng and Miao bass bawu across major conservatories and national minority music ensembles in China. He has also successfully reformed the double-resonance chamber mouth organ, with the new model now in mass production.

Cheng has been teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong- Music Department and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, nurturing students across the Greater China region, including members of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Taiwan's National Chinese Orchestra, Macao Chinese Orchestra, and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.

Cheng has passed on his half-century-old performance techniques, to his student Lee Chun Lok Gordon, who won the Champion of World Harmonica Festival in 2017. In 2024, Lee was awarded the the 18th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards- Young Artist Award by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

Harmonica Hailed as "The young talent from the Far East", HE Liyan is a well-known pianist of his generation in China.

Mr HE studied with Gabriel Kwok at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and received his Master of Music with Distinction. He also studied with Chengzong Yin in New York City, Zhe Tang at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Jintian Kang at Shenzhen Arts School.

He has performed over 300 concerts worldwide in the past eight years at venues including National Library Concert Hall in Beijing, Shanghai Concert Hall, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall in Guangzhou, Shenzhen Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Carnegie Hall in New York City, Berkner Hall at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island New York, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone of Italy, Convention Hall at Isrotel's Royal Beach in Eilat of Israel and Esplanade in Singapore.

As an active chamber musician, Mr HE has performed extensive repertoire including complete sonatas for piano and violin by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, and Brahms complete Hungarian Dances for pianoduo.

HE Liyan is keen on promoting Chinese compositions in concerts and recordings. He gave world premiere of several concertos and chamber music works by Chinese composers Guangying Feng, Kwong-Chiu Mui and Jade Yau.