Growing up, the cellist often felt socially awkward and preferred to be alone, he tells Joel Chua why the cello became his only "buddy".
A Letter to Myself Podcast: How the cello saved Hughes Chong from a lonely childhood and helped his mum recover from stroke
The composer and founder of the Cellography Orchestra started playing the cello when he was seven, fell in love with it and began pursuing it professionally. So when you really need money for a new set of string for your cello or for new textbook, a new music dictionary, and they are way more expensive than common dictionary, how could you ask her for money?
Hughes' mother, Wong Cher Moi, holding the cello for the first time after her stroke. Wong Cher Moi practising on the cello. “Her brain was down to the level of maybe a three-year-old or something.
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