Jacqueline Leung

Location:

North York / Toronto
Canada

Contact:

www.jackieleung.com
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Dr. Jackie Leung is a pianist of international scope, having performed in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. She has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from Stony Brook University, State University of New York. She also has a Masters of Music Performance degree in piano and a Bachelors of Music Performance degree in piano both from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University (Montreal, Canada).

She enjoys performing in small and large ensembles in musical and interdisciplinary settings, and privately with individual musicians. She is available for bookings for young artists through professionals for exams, auditions, recitals, festivals, competitions, theatre, ballet and opera in the Toronto, Ontario (Canada) and Greater Toronto area.

Jackie was a Keyboard Lab Instructor for undergraduate music majors at The Schulich School of Music at McGill University, and has also instructed undergraduate Chamber Music and Applied Piano courses at Stony Brook University.

Dr. Jackie Leung is the founding pianist for Avant Perpetual with violinist Dr. Jin Lee Youn. She has performed as a piano soloist in Olivier Messiaen’s epic orchestral work, Canyons des étoiles working with conductor Steven Schick, as well as contemporary music chamber performances with Ensemble Evolution and members of the NYC’s International Contemporary Ensemble at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity under the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Marshall Williams Endowment of Banff Centre. She has also been a pianist in the Toronto Contemporary Music Lab, and Kyoko Hashimoto’s International Chamber Music Workshop (Germany).

Dr. Jackie Leung has also worked as a Ballet pianist for Interlochen Summer Arts Academy in Michigan, USA and has participated in the Musicianship Mentorship Program at the National Ballet School. She has also taken many courses and intensive workshops in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Solfege and Improvisation in both New York City’s Lucy Moses School, and in the Toronto Summer Intensive workshops in Canada.

Jackie Leung was trained under North America’s finest. She received training in voice repertoire with Michael McMahon, one of Canada's most sought after pianists, and chamber music training with Kyoko Hashimoto, known internationally as an intensely musical soloist and chamber musician. Pleasant to work with and arrives prepared, Jacqueline offers you an unmatched level of collaborative music making experience. With every rehearsal you will receive attention, care, and rich musicality and support.

Her experience as a in lieder and opera repertoire began in 2006 from working closely with Michael McMahon (Lieder/Opera) at McGill University and as a pianist for three years and as pianist in 2008 for the Vocal Arts workshop at the Orford Summer Music Festival in Quebec with McMahon.

Since then she has worked with many singers in Toronto and New York helping to prepare them for auditions and doctoral recitals. She has also worked as a rehearsal pianist with Maestro Kerry Stratton (Toronto Concert Orchestra) and for Fawn Opera Collective based in Toronto. She was also choir and orchestral pianist for the Heliconian Choir and Orchestra (2010-12). She has vast experience in french, german, italian and english songs and opera as well as other chamber music in all periods of classical repertoire especially for strings, woodwinds and some brass.

As a chamber musician, she has been trained under some of the finest musicians including the current Emerson String Quartet, Colin Carr, Gilbert Kalish, Kyoko Hashimoto, Nicholas Cords, Matthias Bucholz, Alan R. Kay, Frank Morelli, Carol Wincenc, Pedro Diaz, and Michael Powell. She has performed at the International Music Workshop in Chamber music (Artistic director Kyoko Hashimoto) at the Schloss Kapfenburg in Lauchheim, Germany.

Jackie Leung has performed as an orchestral pianist under the baton of conductors including Eduardo Leandro (SUNY Stony Brook) and Jeffrey Millarsky (Juilliard). She has also performed in solo and chamber music at music festivals including The International Holland Music Sessions, The Toronto Summer Music Academy Festival, Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Orford Summer Music, and Atlantic Music Festival.

Her solo training includes having performed for some of the world's most prominent pianists and harpsichordists including Jacques Rouvier, Menahem Pressler, Matti Raekallio, André Laplante, Richard Raymond, Dang-Thai Son, Anton Kuerti, Gabriel Chodos, Natalya Antonova, Sean Duggan, Bruce Brubaker, Jane Coop, Charlotte Nediger (Harpsichordist for Tafelmusik Baroque Chamber Orchestra), Xak Bjerken, Gilbert Kalish, Ann Shein, Oksana Ejokina, and Arthur Haas (harpsichordist). Her former piano teachers include: Henri-Paul Sicsic, Kyoko Hashimoto, Thomas Davidson, Andrew Markow. Her first piano teacher was Connie Lam.

Dr. Leung is a recipient of many awards and titles. She has been awarded an Explore and Create music grant from the Canada Council for the Arts (2018) and has been honoured a Gold Medal Teacher of the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Jackie has given piano masterclasses, improvisation workshops, papers, and lecture recitals at various institutions and festivals including the University of Cuenca, Stony Brook University, University of Toronto Scarborough, FIMAC-II, Lebanese American University, the University of Sheffield, and for the Faculty of Music at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Jackie is a Gold Medal Teacher of the RCM and is an official piano examiner for the RCM examinations and holds membership with the RCM College of Examiners. She has additionally adjudicated for New York State School Music Association Festivals including the New York University Piano Festival, North York Music Festival, ORMTA and Crescendo International Piano Competition.

Those who work with Dr. Jackie Leung continually praise her for her strong ear, musicianship, coaching and musical interpretations. She is dedicated, patient, easy to work with and professional.

Visit www.youtube.com/jleungpianist
http://www.jackieleung.com

Instruments

Piano, Harpsichord, Electronic Keyboard

Specialisms

Early Music, Contemporary Music, Improvisation, Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment, Vocal Repetiteur, Musical Theatre

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