Hong Yu Wong is also a musician and music researcher. He works on the philosophy and psychology of music, and has a special interest in historically-inspired performance practice.
Hong Yu continues to study the baroque violin with Mónika Tóth. He has participated in masterclasses at the Accademia Chigiana, the Stauffer Academy, and elsewhere, where he has studied with Rachel Podger, Enrico Onofri, Mayumi Hirasaki, Hiro Kurosaki, Elisa Citterio, Enrico Gatti, Gottfried van der Goltz, Simon Standage, Lorenzo Coppola, Alfredo Bernardini, and Andreas Scholl. His chamber music partners include Anders Muskens, Niels Pfeffer, Matthew Gardner, Martina Trost, János Bali, and Dóra Pétery, amongst others. With the Australian poet Luke Fischer, he explores juxtapositions of music and poetry. He also sits on the Kuratorium of the vielklang Festival in Tübingen.
With his friends, a mix of professional musicians and academics, he founded an early music ensemble, the Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus.