Cheung Chau began cello lessons at age seven and received top prizes at the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival, including first prize at the Commercial Radio Prize Competition at age twelve – the youngest musician ever to receive this prize. At fourteen, he was invited to perform as soloist, playing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. The Sing Dao Daily described him as “a rare gem in the musical field”. Mr. Chau was a full scholarship recipient from the R. D. Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, the Harid Conservatory and also from Yale School of Music.  He won the first prize in the "Artist of Tomorrow" competition in  Los Angeles.  He holds the first double doctorate awarded from the New England Conservatory in Boston in wind ensemble conducting and cello performance. His cello teachers include Colin Carr, Eleonore Schoenfeld, Aldo Parisot and Johanne Perrron. Mr. Chau’s principle conducting teachers include Jorma Panula and Frank Battisti.  He also studied with Edo de Waart, David Zinman, Alan Gilbert, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Joseph Wilkomirski.

Artist performs as a soloist and chamber musician  in USA, Hong Kong, Macao,  Germany, Poland, Lituania, Sweden. Finland. He performed as a soloist with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Macao Chamber Orchestra, Hemet Symphony Orchestra, Brentwood-Westwood Symphony Orchestra and recorded for Irish Radios and Hong Kong Radio and Television Corporation. He is a member of Atma Piano Trio, with violinist/wife Blanka Bednarz and pianist Slawomir Dobrzanski.  The ensemble has performed in Germany, Sweden, Lithuania and the US, and toured extensively in Poland.  Their concerts met with high acclaim and several audience attendance records were broken.

Presently Dr. Chau most of his time devotes to conducting, as a music director of Georgia Southern Symphony in USA and Sinfonietta Polonia in Poland. He is also assistant professor at Georgia Southern University.  The Polish Gazeta Wyborcza praised Chau for his “air of freshness and uniqueness” and for “his ability to create pastel landscapes of sound with very dynamic, poignant gestures”.  His interpretations of Beethoven’s Prometheus Overture and Mozart’s Prague Symphony were “most convincing, persuasive”, and the Xiamen Business News wrote that “[Chau] performed with strong resolution and courage.  He was full of enthusiasm, confidence, and determination, expressed his feelings and led the orchestra very efficiently, dedicating to the audience an exquisite performance”.

Maestro Chau conducted the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in a televised celebration concert of the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China--amongst audience members was the Chinese President Hu Jintao.  Mr. Chau opens the 2007-08 concert season leading the Lublin Philharmonic in Poland in a concert featuring Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra. He also guest conducts the Williamsport Symphony in USA as well as the Theater Nordhausen/Loh-Orchester  in Germany this fall.  His past guest conducting appearances have included the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lublin, Swietokrzyska and Suddetic Philharmonic Orchestras and Podlaska Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland as well as orchestras in Sweden and Finland including, among others, the Gavle Symphony Orchestra, the Vaasa City Orchestra and the Sibelius Academy Orchestra. Mr. Chau worked under the guidance of Maestro Edo de Waart with the Hong Kong Philharmonic since 2004 and conducted the Philharmonic in numerous educational and outreach concerts. In Georgia, Mr. Chau appears regularly as guest conductor of strings program orchestras throughout the state, especially in the Atlanta Metro area.  He has guest conducted the Fulton County Honors Orchestra, served as guest conductor and cello clinician for the Centennial High School Summer Orchestra Camp, and serve as a judge for the Cobb County Orchestra Festival.