Much in demand as a professional violinist, Wei Ken has performed in many countries across the globe. Currently, Wei Ken is on the freelance list of Singapore Symphony Orchestra and has performed with Re:Sound and Sun Symphony Orchestra (Vietnam). Locally, he has performed in Orchestra of the Music Makers (OMM), The Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO), ADDO Chamber Orchestra, Metropolitan Festival Orchestra, re:mix and the Singapore Lyric Opera Orchestra. In Scotland, he has performed regularly alongside the Brodsky Quartet and Scottish Ensemble for projects, also scoring side-by-side sessions with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
A pupil of Foo Say Ming, Wei Ken made his first public debut with the SNYO as soloist on the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto at the Esplanade Concert Hall for the 2008 Singapore Youth Festival when he was 14. As a member of the orchestra from 2007 until 2012, Wei Ken has toured with the SNYO to Italy for the 10th Florence International Music Festival and to Scotland for the 39th Aberdeen International Youth Festival.
In 2019, Wei Ken graduated from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Mr Ng Yu-Ying. In 2021, Wei Ken graduated with a Masters in Music Performance (Violin) degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) with generous support from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Trust, under the tutelage of Andrea Gajic. Wei Ken has won 2nd Prize in the Hilda Bailey Violin Prize in his first year at the RCS. His string quartet was awarded the Mary D Adams Prize for chamber music in 2021, an award only given to the ensemble that has performed consistently to a high standard through the year. Recently, he has performed a sold-out recital at the Steinway Gallery in Jakarta alongside Indonesian pianist Wilson Chu. Wei Ken has also served as jury to the 15th Sekolah Musik Elyon (SME) Open Music Competition in Surabaya.
Wei Ken is thankful to have had incredible lessons with notable violin professors including Hagai Shaham, Mark Kaplan and Ilya Kaler at the Heifetz International Music Institute, Associate Prof. Xie Nan (Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing), Henning Kraggerud, Shlomo Mintz, Siow Lee-Chin, Marc Daniel van Biemen (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra), Dr. Ayke Agus (pianist to Jascha Heifetz), Dima Tkachenko, Alexander Trostiansky, Itzhak Rashkovsky and Wang Hong.
Wei Ken currently uses a Guarneri-model violin made in 2008 by Italian violinmaker Vittorio Villa and a gold mounted bow by Singaporean Archetier Paul S J Goh.