Kristian Chong has established himself as one of Australia's leading younger pianists. He has performed throughout Australia and in England, France, China, Taiwan and Wales at various major festivals and recital series and as concerto soloist he has appeared on numerous occasions with the Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney Symphony Orchestras, and various orchestras in the UK and China under conductors such as Graham Abbott, Werner Andreas Albert, Andrey Boreyko, Nicholas Braithwaite, Tuomas Oillia, Marcus Stenz and Marco Zuccarini. Kristian has recorded for Australian radio and television (ABC), Move Records and has appeared for Musica Viva Australia. His many competition successes include winning the Symphony Australia Young Performers Award (keyboard) and the Australian National Piano Award, as well as recently being a major prizewinner in the 3rd Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition.

Recent performance highlights have included a nationally televised performance of the Rachmaninoff 3rd piano concerto with the Sydney Symphony, the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini with the Beijing International Festival Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 with The Queensland Orchestra and the complete Chopin Scherzos in the UK and in Australia. A highly sought after chamber musician, he has performed with the Australian Chamber Soloists, the Flinders Quartet and was the pianist in the Florizel Piano Trio.

Currently Kristian is based in London, where he is studying with pianists Christopher Elton and Piers Lane at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was the recent recipient of the Dip. RAM, the academy's highest performing accolade, the Walter MacFarren award for the best postgraduate final recital and the Dorothy Grimstead Memorial Award for the most outstanding returning postgraduate student. He was named as the 2002 South Australian Emerging Artist of the year and has been supported in London by the Australian Music Foundation, the Ian Potter Foundation, the Wingate Foundation and the University of Melbourne. In Australia he studied at the University of Melbourne with Stephen McIntyre, a student of Michelangi, and in addition he has worked with musicians such as Alexander Satz, Yonty Solomon, Martin Roscoe, Stephen Hough and, Boris Berman. Upcoming engagements include solo and chamber recitals in Australia, Hong Kong, UK, and Zimbabwe as well as concerto performances in London and Australia. In addition, Kristian holds degrees in Law and Commerce from the University of Adelaide.