About me!

Joey Eng (b. 2001) is a percussionist, composer, producer and educator from Perth, Western Australia. As a soloist, Joey has performed and given masterclasses to audiences in Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Joey was the winner of the 2022 Warana Concerto Competition and a finalist in both the inaugural 2019 and the 2021 Marimbafest international solo marimba competition, in which he won 2nd prize and the audience choice award.

A multi-skilled percussionist and collaborator, Joey has performed with many orchestras across Australia including the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, principal timpanist with the Perth Symphony Orchestra, Australian Baroque, Australian Youth Orchestra, and the Vienna Pops Orchestra. He was also a member and soloist with the World Percussion Group.

As a composer, Joey’s solo percussion and chamber works are being performed regularly around the world. He has been commissioned by many ensembles/organizations, including the World Percussion Group, Edition Svitzer, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and the Silver Sands Guitar Quartet. As a composer-performer, Joey has scored and performed in live theatre productions including ‘The Hope Fault’ and Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’. Joey is also an adept arranger, and his arrangements of contemporary songs have been performed by the Perth Symphony Orchestra, the WAAPA Symphony Orchestra and Defying Gravity Percussion Ensemble.

Joey completed his Bachelor of Music from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, receiving the 2022 WAAPA Medal as the top graduate of the entire school. Joey has been awarded an ECU Vice Chancellor’s Award, an ECU WAAPA Scholarship, a 2022 Peter Hurford Award, the 2022 Luigi Paolino Award, and the 2021 Norman Archibald Percussion Scholarship.

Joey is a Premier Artist for Marimba One (USA) and his compositions are published by Edition Svitzer (Denmark). He is currently based in Detmold, Germany.