Hong Kong-born Cheng Xin Ip completed his graduate studies at the University of British Columbia in 2024 under the tutelage of Dr. Jonathan Girard, and has participated in conducting workshops and masterclasses hosted by Martyn Brabbins, Mark Heron, Toby Purser and Clark Rundell. His past conducting teachers and mentors include Ho-man Choi, Mark Heron, Kelvin Ngai and Toby Purser. Ip has performed in venues and concert halls across the globe, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea, UK, Germany, USA, Canada, and collaborated with world-famous artists such as Vassily Sinaisky, Antony Hermus, Eric Whitacre, and Twoset Violin, etc.

Ip was named a conducting fellow at the Domaine Forget de Charlevoix 2023 and 2024, where he had the privilege of working with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Kensho Watanabe, and assisted in their performances with the Orchestre Métropolitain and the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec. In 2024, he was invited to participate in the National Orchestral Institute + Festival, working closely with Marin Alsop and Mei-Ann Chen.

Ip is also an accomplished percussionist. He graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music, UK, with a Master of Music in Timpani and Orchestral Percussion Performance, where he was awarded the Southern Percussion Prize; He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Music from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he was twice awarded the Parsons Music Foundation Scholarship and the Chung Chi Departmental Prize. He was selected as an RTHK Young Music Maker by Radio Television Hong Kong in 2019, making magazine, television, radio appearances and recorded solo performances for TV show and CD release. Ip is currently a Sessional Lecturer at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches undergraduate conducting.