Shirley Whing Chow, an Iconic Woman Award recipient at the 2018 Women Economic Forum held in Los Angeles, is a dynamic and versatile opera coach-pianist by training. Over three decades, she has thrived in the academia, professional opera companies and stages across the U.S., Canada, Austria, Italy, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Macau, and her birthplace Hong Kong.
An accompanist, a soprano, conductor, and concert producer who knows ADHD, PTSD and bullying intimately, Shirley has applied human psychology and social-emotional learning on people of all ages and backgrounds to great effect. From 2007-2018, while directing and falling in love with tens of thousands of children and youth at a major performing arts center in Hong Kong, she has witnessed and dealt with cases of social anxiety disorders and depression.
Promoting Happiness and Success for children and young women became her new mission in 2016. Founding Shirley Whing @ Fine Voices (Hong Kong’s first operatic and musical singing meet-up and a performing arts society) in 2016, Shirley has been producing Emotional Wellness and Women Empowerment Advocacy concerts, speaking at international women conferences, and become a co-author of Amazon Bestseller Ignite Your Life for Women.
Shirley uses humor and Social-Emotional Learning techniques to activate children's musical, linguistic, interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences, supporting their development in the areas of confidence, competence, and compassion. To facilitate her work, she created Shirley Whing & Fine Voices Co. Ltd. in April 2019. SWFV’s first major project took place on May 1st 2019 when Shirley directed the first NMCC International Music Competition - Hong Kong Regional to provide children from Hong Kong, China and Singapore with an international-level music performance platform. She is also a member of the Jury for the competition’s Asian Finals scheduled for Jul 21, 2019 at Macau.
As a Womanpreneur and Female Empowerment Advocate, Shirley spoke about conscious programming and subconscious reprogramming at the 13th Symposium of the World Academy for the Future of Womenwhich took place at Sias University in Zhengzhou, China on May 11, 2019.
Now as a certified Social-Emotional Intelligence Coach, Shirley is dedicated in equipping children across the Asian region and beyond with essential skills for their *immediate emotional wellness* and *21st-century success.*
