Biography

“Superlatives are inadequate in response to the recital by Edward Leung ... here was an exceptional pianist” ~ Newport Adviser

“A name to watch … Edward displayed a virtuosic technique coupled to a profound musicianship” ~ Malvern Gazette 

“A very heated totally committed performance that took us all by storm and of course won him quite rightly the zizzling jackpot. It has all the makings of a great interpretation” ~ Christopher Axworthy

Hailed for his “taut succinctness with emotional expansiveness and a striking capacity for invention” (BBC Music Magazine), American pianist Edward Leung is a sought-after recitalist and chamber musician. Edward is a 2025-2027 Making Music Recommended Artist and a Bösendorfer-Amadeus Young Artist.

In 2024, Edward won the Grand Prize and Public Prize in the inaugural Piano&Souls International Piano Competition. His debut album with violinist Usha Kapoor, Beach • John Corigliano: Violin Sonatas [Resonus Classics], was longlisted for Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, critically acclaimed by BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, Foto Forum, and Classical Explorer, and was featured on ABC Classic’s Festival of Female Composers and SWR2 Treffpunkt Klassik. This current season features solo and chamber music recitals at Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Milton Court, and venues in The Hague, Edinburgh, and Antwerp.

A sought-after chamber musician, Edward has worked with members of the Artemis, Lindsay, and Elias String Quartets, as well as David Campbell, Willam Hagen, Viviane Hagner, Guy Johnston, Boris Kucharsky, Charles Neidich, Olivier Patey, Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne. He has worked in masterclasses with Ferenc Rados, Richard Goode, Stephen Kovacevich, Joseph Kalichstein, and Nikolai Demidenko. He has appeared in concerto performances with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonic Orchestra ‘Mihail Jora’ of Bacau, Orchestre symphonique du CRR de Cergy-Pontoise, Music of the Spheres Ensemble, and the Princeton University Orchestra.  

He is the cofounder of Opus 21, an innovative chamber music collective dedicated to bringing an eclectic repertory of chamber music to Princeton University and beyond. Hailed by The Daily Princetonian for its 'dramatic, exciting performances' and 'a true need in the Princeton arts community', Opus 21 has formed chamber music collaborations with Harvard and Columbia Universities, and has performed at the Harvard Club of New York, Richardson Auditorium, and the 2015 APAP|NYC for the North American premiere of Sam Wu's 'dolphin song'. 

After studies at Princeton University and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with Francine Kay and Pascal Nemirovski, Edward is on faculty at The Yehudi Menuhin School, where he is a Staff Pianist and teaches chamber music. He frequently gives masterclasses internationally and has previously taught at the Junior Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Westminster School.