Canadian Pianist Jacqueline C. Leung was born in Rexdale Ontario. She holds a Masters degree in Piano Performance from the Schulich School of Music of McGill University (2009) where she was under the tutelage of internationally renowned pianist Kyoko Hashimoto.
Jacqueline has performed in concerts in Canada, Holland and Germany. Jacqueline grew up a frequent prizewinner at the Kiwanis Music Festival of Greater Toronto where she has been awarded with 17 prizes. In 2008 and 2009, she was a selected to be a national finalist for the TD Canada Trust Music Competition held in Elora, Ontario. She has performed in masterclasses for many of the world's most leading pianists including Jacques Rouvier, Menahem Pressler, Matti Raekallio, André Laplante, Anton Kuerti, Jamie Parker, Marietta Orlov, Andre Laplante, Jane Coop, Jamie Parker, Richard Raymond, and Jean Saulnier. Jacqueline has been a piano participant at The International Holland Music Sessions, The International Chamber Music Workshop led by Kyoko Hashimoto, The Toronto Summer Music Academy Festival, as well as the Orford Arts Center summer music. Jacqueline has been named an Ontario Scholar and is a recipient of the Heather Hamlin Scholarship, Canada Millenium Bursaries, Ontario Student Opportunity Grants, Mary Beatty H Scholarship and scholarships to the Toronto Summer Music Festival Academy.
Jacqueline has a teaching profile built over experiences of over eleven years. She began teaching in 1998 at the Ontario Conservatory of Music where she taught group and private music lessons to students of a diverse age range from 3=adult. There she also taught group theory classes and her students excelled with marks of distinction in their examinations given by the Royal Conservatory of Music. After leaving Ontario in 2002, she taught privately in the downtown area of Montreal.
In 2006, Jacqueline was offered an associate Instructorship at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University for Keyboard Proficiency courses and taught there for eight semesters. In her students’ course evaluations, she has received praise for her teaching abilities and techniques.
Jacqueline continually strengthens her pedagogical techniques by attending masterclasses and conferences. Jacqueline attended the March 2009 workshop at the Ottawa University Piano Pedagogy Research Lab exploring the Physical and the Musical in Piano Technique. She has also attended numerous masterclasses including that of renowned pedagogues like Marc Durand.
Jacqueline also performs in collaborative music. She has been coached in vocal collaborative arts under Canada’s finest, Michael McMahon at the Vocal Arts Workshop of the 2008 Orford Arts Academy and in his Song Interpretation classes at McGill University for three years. She also has an equally strong interest in Chamber Music and New Music. For Chamber Music, she was coached under Kyoko Hashimoto and violist Douglas MacNabney.
Jacqueline is also interested in breaking the barriers in being a classically trained pianist and is open to new collaborations with artists of any art. Her performance abilities are specialized but not limited to piano. She has performed the graphic notated "Cannibal Caliban" (1975) by Francis Schwartz in April 2008 at McGill University.
Finally, Jacqueline was also the youngest delegate in 2007 to present upon invitation to the Interdisciplinary International 19th Century European Folk Revival Conference at the University of Sheffield (UK). Her paper titled A cry for Lithuania: Alfred Cortot’s edition of Chopin’s fourth Ballade was received with praise.
Jacqueline C. Leung is interested in undertaking performances and projects related to music for social change. In 2008 and 2009, she was co-director to two successful benefit events: McGill Darfur Benefit Concert in Redpath Hall at McGill University for Save Darfur Canada, and The Montreal Heart of the City Benefit Concert with a Silent Auction in the Tanna Schulich Hall at McGill University for the Montreal Heart of the City Piano Program for inner-city primary schools in Montreal.
..Jacqueline currently resides in Toronto, Ontario (Canada). She teaches, performs, plays in a sextet, writes her own music and has a music for social change+recipe blog (musicandgoodeats.blogspot.com). She is always up for exciting collaborations with all artists/ensembles. She invites composers to submit their scores to her for possible premiere performances and new concert projects. ..
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