Paul Cheung studied with Tamara-Anna Cislowska and completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Collaborative Piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he received multiple scholarships and was taught by David Miller AM.

As an accomplished solo pianist, chamber pianist and accompanist, Paul received the inaugural David Miller Award in 2018 and the Geoffrey Parsons Award in 2023.

Paul has performed a number of concerti with orchestras, including Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 3, Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, Mozart’s Concerto for Three Pianos, Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.

For the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Paul is an associate artist for its Rising Stars program and is an official accompanist for the Sydney Eisteddfod. He has performed with the Australian Youth Orchestra’s Chamber Players and Momentum Ensemble.

Aside from playing piano, Paul is an avid mathematician. In 2008, he was a silver medallist at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Madrid and in 2012, he completed a Bachelor of Science (Advanced Mathematics) with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney.

For the 2022 Australian National Piano Award, he received Second Prize as well as The Shepparton News Prize for best Bach performance and The Andreadis Family Australian Composition Commission Prize for best performance for music composed after 1950.