Horng Kent, Tham was one of the recipients of Asia Yamaha Music Scholarship in 2007 and graduated from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow with distinction in Master of Music (Performance) degree in 2011. 

In 2012-2016, he was awarded a full scholarship by the Malaysian Higher Education Ministry and Sultan Idris Education University for his doctoral studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, where he obtained a Doctor in Music Performance degree. 

In 2016, he was invited by the European Academic Artists Association to give a piano recital in the Tallinn Town Hall, Estonia and won the First Prize in the 26th Young Musician International Competition Citta di Barletta (Duo and Ensemble category) in Italy. 

Academically, he was selected to present a paper in the Second as well as Third Doctors in Music Performance festival conference at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre respectively. 

In 2018, He was invited to be one of the juries of Kingsburg International Piano Competition in China as well as 3rd ODIN International Youth Piano Festival in Estonia. He is currently a senior lecturer at Sultan Idris Education University in Malaysia.