His early studies were at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide, South Australia, where he was accepted at the age of nine on piano with Stefan Ammer and Noreen Stokes, and violin with Beryl Kimber.
[citation needed] Chong has performed extensively throughout Australia and the UK, and in China, France, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, USA, and Zimbabwe.
[1] As concerto soloist, he has appeared with the Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne,[2] Queensland, Sydney and Tasmanian symphony orchestras, and orchestras in the UK, New Zealand and China under conductors such as Werner Andreas Albert, Andrey Boreyko, Nicholas Braithwaite, Jessica Cottis, Roy Goodman, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Nicholas Milton, Benjamin Northey, Tuomas Ollila, Fabian Russell, Markus Stenz, Arvo Volmer and Marco Zuccarini [it].
Other collaborations include violinists Ilya Konovalov, (concertmaster Israel Philharmonic), Adam Chalabi, Alexandre Da Costa, Dale Barltrop, Jack Liebeck and Vadim Gluzman, violists Christopher Moore and Caroline Henbest, and clarinetists Philip Arkinstall and Michael Collins, among many others.
120 Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano with Philip Arkinstall and with flautist Megan Sterling, works by Miriam Hyde, Anne Boyd, Carl Vine, Frank Martin, Francis Poulenc and Philippe Gaubert.