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 and its philosophy.
Hong Yu studies the baroque violin with Mónika Tóth. He has participated in masterclasses at the Accademia Chigiana, the Stauffer Academy, and elsewhere, where he had the opportunity to study with Rachel Podger, Enrico Onofri, Mayumi Hirasaki, Hiro Kurosaki, Elisa Citterio, Leila Schayegh, Enrico Gatti, Gottfried van der Goltz, Simon Standage, Lorenzo Coppola, Alfredo Bernardini, Carmen Leoni, Andreas Scholl, and many others.
His chamber music partners include Anders Muskens, Niels Pfeffer, Matthew Gardner, Martina Trost, and Dóra Pétery. 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.
His research on music brings together philosophy, musicology, and empirical aesthetics. Together with the historical keyboard specialist, Anders Muskens, and the philosopher of mind, Krisztina Orbán, he seeks to understand musical styles in terms of the affective atmospheres they evoke. With the archetier, Marie-Eve Geeraert, and the luthier, Johannes Loescher, he is charting the social, cultural, and philosophical changes which led to the emergence of the modern violin.
A few years ago, with his friends, a mix of professional musicians and academics, he founded an early music ensemble, the Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus.