Karen Yeung is the co-founder and artistic director of Concerto da Camera, professional chamber music ensemble which has been active in Hong Kong since 2004, and a co-founder of the Hong Kong Bassoon Academy, a school that has been offering quality music education since 2010. Under her leadership and with her vision, Concerto da Camera offers unique, innovative chamber music programmes which promote public interest in classical music. In 2019, Concert da Camera launched the biennale Hong Kong Early Music Festival. 

 

Yeung received her early musical training at the Wells Cathedral School, England studying under the specialist music programm. Later on, Yeung graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2001. 

 

She continued her studies on the modern bassoon at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam under Mr. Ronald Karten, Principal Bassoon of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and on the baroque bassoon and early music performance studies under Ms. Donna Agrell, bassoonist of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. She has participated in masterclasses given by renowned coaches and players of historical bassoons, including Alberto Grazzi of Ensemble Zefiro, Italy.