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Founding violist of the award-winning Partridge String Quartet and Eclective Strings, Eunise Cheng is a Melbourne-based violist who has been praised for her rich and generous sound in chamber music performances. Eunise has won numerous awards, including First Prize at the Queensland International Chamber Music Prize, First Prize at the Australian National Academy of Music Competition, the Musica Viva Chamber Music Prize, Husky Energy Artist Award, Flora Bunning Memorial Prize, Margarete Bello Memorial Prize, and the Ernest Llewellyn Memorial Trust Fund Travel Award. Eunise’s love for music has taken her around the world to countries including the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, Canada, and China, performing in some of the most incredible venues in the world, such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Sydney Opera House, and Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts. With the Partridge String Quartet, which was selected as an artist-in-residence at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Eunise has studied under and been mentored by musicians from string quartet legends including the Alban Berg Quartet, Borodin String Quartet, Takács Quartet, Doric String Quartet, JACK Quartet, Dover String Quartet, and Kronos Quartet. While Melbourne is now considered home, Eunise regularly performs across Australia and has appeared at many prominent festivals, including the Perth International Arts Festival, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Canberra International Music Festival, Port Fairy Spring Festival, Bendigo Chamber Music Festival, Four Winds Music Festival, Tarrawarra Museum of Art Tarrawarra Festival, Coffs Harbour Festival of Music, and Huntington Estate Chamber Music Festival. She has participated in chamber orchestra projects led by internationally acclaimed musicians including Nicolas Alstaedt, Vilde Frang, Lawrence Power, and Anthony Marwood, and has performed alongside musicians from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Australian String Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Berlin Philharmonic, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. A passionate advocate for Australian music, Eunise has premiered works by Australian composers including Richard Mills, Bryony Marks, Nat Bartsch, Luke Altmann, Brian Howard, and Stefan Cassomenos. She has performed with orchestras under the baton of esteemed conductors such as Simone Young, Brett Dean, Erin Helyard, Nigel Westlake, Benjamin Bayl, and the late Ennio Morricone. In 2024, Eunise was invited to join the Sydney Dance Company and the Australian String Quartet on the acclaimed production Twofold, which featured ‘Impermanence’ by Rafael Bonachela, set to music by Grammy Award-winning composer Bryce Dessner. Eunise has appeared with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Australian World Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and has served as Principal Violist with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra on multiple occasions. She has also performed in productions with Victorian Opera including Le Cenerentola, Parrwang Lifts the Sky, The Visitors, as well as with the Australian International Opera Company for a national tour of Carmen and La Bohème across China. Beyond the classical stage, she has performed in the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra with international artists such as Sigur Rós and Andrea Bocelli during their Australian tours, and performed with iconic Australian acts including John Farnham, Tina Arena, Katie Noonan, Lior, The Angels, The Whitlams, Dami Im, and Jessica Mauboy. Beyond performing, Eunise has embraced creative leadership roles across a range of interdisciplinary projects. As a Musica Viva Futuremaker Emerging Artist, she was a key contributor to Musica Viva’s FutureMakers project Black Angels and has curated innovative programs for MPavilion and a concert series at Marnong Estate while working on numerous orchestral projects with Candlelight Concerts. She regularly writes for Eclective Strings and has rearranged over 50 works for the ensemble performed at their concerts all around Australia. Eunise is a graduate of the Australian National Academy of Music, the University of Western Australia, the University of Melbourne, and the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. During her studies, she was awarded several scholarships, including the Kate Flowers Memorial Scholarship, Corinna D’Hage Mayer String Scholarship, and the University of Western Australia Wesley Mission Perth Music Scholarship. Passionate about education and mentorship, Eunise has worked with young musicians in a range of settings. She has mentored students at Monash University, served as a Teaching Artist for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s education program The Pizzicato Effect, teaches at the Ellison String Studio, and is a guest tutor for Musica Viva’s Strike a Chord Chamber Music Coaching Program and Melbourne Youth Orchestras.