Neil Nongkynrih is an award winning concert pianist from Shillong, Meghalaya, India. He is the founder, mentor and conductor of Shillong Chamber Choir (SCC) which won the reality show India's Got Talent in 2010.He was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India in 2015. He was born on 9 July 1970 in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. He did his initial studies in Meghalaya and learnt most of his initial lessons in music from his sister Pauline Warjri, a jazz musician. He was introduced to the works of Mozart, Beethoven and other counterparts of their era by his grand-aunt. Neil is the son of AH Scott Lyngdoh, a former state minister of Meghalaya and the convener of the Meghalaya chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Culture Heritage (INTACH) and Elvirial Nongkynrih.

Shillong Chamber Choir performed for the first time at Pinewood Hotel in Shillong on January 14 and 15, 2001 with an assembling of 25 soloists. There was no turning back after that. The choir mainly plays the pieces from Handel, Bach, Gershwin, Mozart and Neil’s compositions. Apart from the classical stuff, the group also plays Khasi folk songs, popular adaptations of Queen and ABBA as well as choral-style revamps of Hindi film (Bollywood) classics. In 2009, the Shillong Chamber Choir had collaborated with the famed Vienna Orchestra for a couple of concerts in Shillong and Kolkata, a first time in the musical history of North-East India. The choir group shot to fame after it won the reality talent show, India's Got Talent (Season 2) in October 2010, on Colors TV, part of the Got Talent franchise. The choir participated in the 6th World Choir Games held at Shaoxing China (Shanghai) in July 2010 and was awarded Gold in all three categories - Musica Sacra, Gospel and Popular. The SCC has performed extensively in India and toured Europe, Canada, North America and South East Asia. The choir also performed for US President Barack Obama when he visited India in 2010. SCC has been featured as a study chapter in the English Syllabus of the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) in 2013.