External Research Associate
ccheng15[at]binghamton.edu
Assistant Professor
Department of Music, Binghamton University
Research Keywords:
East Asian Music; Asian and Asian American Diaspora
Hippocrates Cheng is a theorist-composer from Hong Kong. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music Theory and an affiliated faculty of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University. He completed his Doctor of Music Composition with a minor in ethnomusicology at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (IUJSOM) in 2024.
As a researcher, he researches the music of Hong Kong composer Doming Lam, East Asian music, piano rolls and player piano in early Jazz history and Braille music notation. As an educator, he has been invited to give guest lectures and masterclasses in the United States, Canada, Austria, Germany, China, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
In 2024 June, his Anti-Asian Hate chamber opera—“All of US”—was premiered as the winning work commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana. In summer 2025, he completed a two-month research residency in Vienna, awarded by the Arnold Schönberg Center, where he conducted in-depth research on Schönberg’s notational style, specifically on his orchestration tables.
Recently, collaborating with musicians and scholars, he founded a creative-research initiative East Asian Music in the Contemporary World (EAMCW) initiative to promote new music for East Asian instruments and to provide a dynamic platform where performers, scholars, students, and community members can experience, reflect on and engage in dialogue about East Asian music in contemporary contexts.
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