Dr. Jacqueline Leung

Dr. Jackie Leung (D.M.A performance, M.Mus, B.Mus) is an established performer and teaching artist of international scope, who has made professional appearances in North and South America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Jackie has earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree for classical piano performance at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, mentored by Christina Dahl. She also holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in piano performance and a minor in Management from McGill University. Other piano teachers during her post-secondary studies include: Kyoko Hashimoto, Thomas Davidson and Henri-Paul Sicsic. She has held lecturer positions for undergraduate Keyboard Lab at The Schulich School of Music at McGill University from 2006-2009 and has taught undergraduate chamber music and solo piano at the State University of New York, Stony Brook University. She has given masterclasses, workshops, papers, and lecture-recitals at various festivals and schools including Stony Brook University (S.U.N.Y), The Steinway Gallery, University of Cuenca, Lebanese American University (Beirut, Lebanon), the Pumapongo Museum (Ecuador), the Music Performance Lecture Series at the University of Toronto Scarborough, FIMAC-II (Festival Internacional de Música Académica Contemporánea in Ecuador, the International Interdisciplinary 19th Century European Folk Revival Conference (United Kingdom), and at the Faculty of Music of Hong Kong Baptist University. Honored a Gold Medal Teacher by the Royal Conservatory of Music, Jackie is a believer in making music holistically and creatively, and often engages in the practice of Dalcroze eurhythmics, improvisation and solfège in relation to piano. Jackie is a member of the College of Examiners, where she is a piano examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music. She has adjudicated for the senior piano auditions for the Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association, Crescendo International Piano Competition, Axis Music piano exams, the New York State School Music Association Festivals including its New York University Piano Festival, North York Music Festival, and undergraduate piano juries for Stony Brook University. Jackie is interested in pushing the boundaries between creation and performance and also practices free improvisation. She has performed for the Audiopollination improvisation series, and has presented solo recitals of Scriabin’s op.8 piano etudes with free improvisations for the International Society for Improvising Musicians conference. She has also collaborated through improvisation with composer Erik Spangler (aka DJ Dubble8) in his composition "Double Identities" (2014) for piano, electronics, and Hip Hop DJ. Jackie has extensive performance experience in solo and chamber settings. She has been featured in Continuum Contemporary Ensemble Press Play series performing solo and chamber works by Alvin Singleton with Ryan Scott. She received direct praise from the composer and was asked to be editor to Singleton's new edition of Mutations for solo piano by Schott editions. She has performed in concert with members of International Contemporary Ensemble, and has performed in the premiere for “Multitudinis” by the legendary composer George Lewis. She has also performed as a piano soloist under the baton of Steven Schick for Olivier Messiaen’s epic orchestral work, Canyons des étoiles at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Marshall Williams Endowment of Banff Centre.