Ernest Hin-Leung So (Chinese: 蘇顯亮; born June 1, 1978) is a Hong Kong-born pianist who specialises in the works of lesser-known classical composers such as Sergei Bortkiewicz, Leopold Godowsky, Nikolai Medtner, Jean Wiener, Déodat de Séverac, Mario Ruiz Armengol, Federico Mompou, and Anatoly Alexandrov,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] among many others, including world premiere recordings of works by Lucien Wurmser[11] and Abram Chasins.
So's performances usually include impromptu deliveries on the provenance and contextual background of the pieces he is playing.
Early in his career, So won the Best Performer Award in Singapore (1995)[12] and the Beethoven Trophy (1995).
[16] He serves as an Affiliated Fellow at the Morningside College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
[8][14][18][19] When he is not performing, So devotes much of his time working with the Au Kim Hung Love & Care Association to provide charitable support for school-building and scholarship projects in impoverished areas of mainland China.