2025 Adjudicators

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 whose passion for chamber music and
collaboration is evident in her work. 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, as well as at
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 with gifted young musicians.

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.

Daisy has had the privilege of performing for many of today's leading classical musicians,
including Steven Isserlis, Pamela Frank, Pinchas Zukerman, Jon Kimura Parker, Mary Morrison,
Laurence Lesser, and Sylvia Rosenberg.

In addition to her accomplishments as a teacher and pianist, 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 flourish
through performance opportunities and financial support.