Hon Ning Cheung (1998-) is a composer, chromatic harmonicist, and conductor from Hong Kong, currently based in Luzern and Maastricht. Graduating from chemistry bachelor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2020, she transposed from science to music. After four years, she finished her composition bachelor at Conservatorium Maastricht with Vykintas Baltakas, and currently continuing this journey at Hochschule Luzern for master composition under the guidance of Dieter Ammann and Nadir Vassena. As a chromatic harmonicist, she has been expanding harmonica’s repertoires through exploring its timbral possibilities and varied instrumental combination, while working actively with living composers. Passionate about uncertainty and fragility in different perspectives, Hon Ning loves to explore different art forms while being exposed in various dimensions as a musician, to continue searching her expression. 

In 2021, she founded the Nefelibata New Music Collective, which she curates, composes, conducts and performs regularly to explore new concert formats together with the musicians at Conservatorium Maastricht. Passionate about connecting music with the community, over the past five years, she has been curating annual concert episodes <Last Minutes Alive> together with the collective musicians, organizing charity concerts in hopes of supporting and connecting with non-profit organizations, such as Refugee Project Maastricht, Prinses Máxima Centrum, Make-A-Wish Netherlands. She formed “Atemsäer Duo” with pianist Lilian Phan in hopes of expanding contemporary harmonica repertories in chamber music and collaborating actively with living composers abroad.  She is the composer and chromatic harmonica player of Der Wanderer,  a composer-performer quartet based in Aachen, together with composer-pianist Andy Janssen, soprano singer Alina Palus, and pianist Lilian Phan. Hon Ning has premiered harmonica works by Oswald Huỳnh, Kyohei Sugihara, Riccardo Perugini, Zhaolong Sun, Mario Pallas, Zihan Zhao, Yuki Nakahashi, Haodong Wang, Andy Janssen, Tai Nakamura, and Ethan Blackburn. In 2023, together with Nefelibata Sinfonietta and conductor Txemi Etxebarria, she brought the Dutch premiere of the violin concerto <Fantasia> by the late Einojuhani Rautavaara with chromatic harmonica. From 2024 onwards, she carries on with the Nefelibata Sinfonietta as curator, composer and conductor.

Hon Ning actively participates in masterclasses and workshops across Europe, including Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation Masterclass with Peter Eötvös and Stefano Gervasoni (2023), Impuls Academy Composition masterclasses with Franck Bedrossian, Francesco Filidei, Isabel Mundry(2025), Conducting Academy Ticino with Titus Engel and Ensemble Modern (2025), Cascais & Oeiras Chamber Orchestra Conducting Academy with Ricardo Averbach and Nikolay Lalov(2025), Academy for Contemporary Music at Hochschule Luzern with Clara Iannotta and Alex Paxton(2026), conducting masterclass with Michał Janocha and  Yaroslav Shemet in 54th Music Festival <Poznań Musical Spring> (2025) Festival, Divertimento Ensemble orchestra conducting course with Sandro Gorli (2024), AltreVoci Ensemble Conducting Masterclass with Marco Angius (2025-2026), Cátedra Manuel de Falla Music, al Analysis and Composition Course with Fabián Panisello (2023), <Sound of Wander: geografie dell’ascolto> with Lisa Streich(2023), KlexosLab composition workshop with Alessandro Perini (2024), Soundmine Composition Workshop with Annelies Van Parys, Jorrit Tamminga, Quentin Meurisse, and Diederik Glorieux (2024); CEME Composition masterclass with Yair Klartag(2023), and <Arts Letters & Numbers> composition class with Reiko Füting and Michael Harrison(2021). She collaborated with Philharmonie Zuidnederland Ensemble, Cascais & Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, AltreVoci Ensemble, Dissolution Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, Zuiderwind Ensemble, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Mdi Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Icarus vs Muzak, Ictus Ensemble, Etesiane orchestra, Sepia Ensemble, Taller Sonoro, Trio Quartet, Adeona Duo, and Chamber Choir Maastricht. Her compositions were performed in Musiksommer am Zürichsee (2025, Rapperswil/CH), VII New Music Festival "KlexosLab" (2024, Plasencia/ES), Contemporanea Città di Udine (2023, IT), Festival de Música Española de Cádiz (2023, ES), Groningen Guitar Festival (2023, Groningen/NL),  Le concours de piano «Andrée CHARLIER» (2022, Charleroi/BE), and Ars Musica(2022, Brussels/BE). 

Since August 2025, Hon Ning has been teaching chromatic harmonica at Musikschule Zug.