Hoh Chung Shih was educated at Raffles Institution and its affiliated Raffles Junior College. He subsequently did his undergraduate studies as Singapore Public Service Commission overseas music scholar at King's College London where he graduated with First Class Honours in Composition and Analysis. For five years after returning to Singapore he was actively involved in various aspects of music education ranging from teaching to the revision and designing of national music curricula. During these years, he also studied the guqin Chinese 7-string zither) with Master Ji Zhiqun. Subsequently, Chung Shih completed a PhD in Composition as a Presidential Fellow at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he also studied computer music at the Lejaren Hiller Computer Music Studios.

Chung Shih was Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at University of Redlands School of Music. Currently he is Visiting Professor with the University at Buffalo / Singapore Institute of Management Undergraduate Degree Studies Program of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York and Principal Investigator on a project funded by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (USA)for Redlands Institute investigating the aesthetic consciousness of Southern Californian experimental musicians.