For over twenty years, pianist Daisy Leung has been teaching piano, music
history, and theory. She feels fortunate to share her knowledge and love of music
with the next generation through her teaching and participation in adjudicating
festivals across Ontario.
 
Daisy is an accomplished collaborative artist. She has performed as a collaborative
pianist, orchestral musician, and soloist across North America, and she has served
as a faculty collaborative pianist at Festival del Lago in Ajijic, Mexico. Her
performances have been broadcast on CBC Music, most recently alongside world-
renowned double bassist Joel Quarrington. Currently, she resides in Toronto and
works as a collaborative pianist at the University of Toronto, the Royal
Conservatory of Music’s Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young
Artists and Glenn Gould School, where she has performed in Koerner Hall.
 
Daisy began her music studies in Edmonton, Alberta, under the guidance of Betty
Wong, Wolfram Linnebach, and Thelma O’Neill. She later moved to Toronto,
where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Toronto
studying with piano pedagogue Marietta Orlov. She also completed further studies
with Steven Philcox and Lydia Wong at the University of Toronto, under the baton
of Jorge Parodi at The Banff Centre, with Helmut Brauss at the Algonquin Summer
Institute, Marietta Orlov at the Aria Summer Music Festival, and Marc-André
Hamelin, Jamie Sommerville, and Andrew Dawes at the Scotia Festival of Music.
 
She has had the privilege of performing for many musicians, including Steven
Isserlis, Pamela Frank, Pinchas Zukerman, Jon Kimura Parker, Mary Morrison,
Laurence Lesser, and Sylvia Rosenberg.
 
Daisy has served on the Board of Directors for the Women’s Musical Club of
Toronto for the past four years. She believes that her experiences from both the
performance and administrative sides of her career will contribute positively to
classical music presentation and help future generations of musicians.