Dr. Annie Wong is a passionate and experienced educator, performer, and adjudicator. She is on faculty at the Royal Conservatory of Music (The Oscar Peterson School and The Taylor Academy) in Toronto and is a member of the RCM College of Examiners. Having served as Academic Lecturer at the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney, she taught undergraduate and graduate students in piano performance, concert performance classes, weekly master classes, chamber music, music theory, music history, aural skills and musicianship, and keyboard harmony. During her time in the United States, she taught applied piano, class piano, and music theory to undergraduate students at Shenandoah University and was on faculty at the Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy. She has been invited as a juror for international piano competitions in Australia, Macau, and Indonesia as well as for festivals across Canada. Her students have achieved great success at the Royal Conservatory of Music examinations in both practical and theory subjects, university auditions, festivals, and competitions.

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Dr. Wong’s performances have been described as "imaginative and evocative", and audiences are thrilled by her "powerhouse exuberance". She has performed across Canada, the United States, and Australia, in venues such as the Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Koerner Hall, Mazzoleni Hall, The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Orpheum, Vancouver Playhouse, Telus Studio Theatre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, St. Andrew's Church, Guilford Station Arts Club, Westminster Canterbury, and the Live at Lunch Concert Series at the Winchester Medical Centre in Virginia. She was the first prize winner of the Virginia Music Teachers Association Concerto Competition and Shenandoah Conservatory Concerto Competition, and was a prizewinner in the Bjorn and Lori Hareid Competition as well as the Vancouver Women’s Musical Society Scholarship Competition.

 

Annie received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance from Shenandoah University in Virginia on a full scholarship, having studied with esteemed pianist and pedagogue Dr. John O'Conor and graduating with The Outstanding Performance in Piano Award. While pursuing her doctoral degree, she was twice the recipient of the prestigious Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges Award in recognition of her exceptional academic achievements. As a student of Professor Irina Morozova, she received her Master of Music degree from Mannes School of Music in New York City and was recipient of the Dean's Award. During her studies with Professor Jane Coop and Dr. Terence Dawson at The University of British Columbia, she garnered numerous scholarships and awards for both her musical and academic performance, including the Ruth Parnum King Memorial Prize. In addition to working with her principal teachers, she has received coachings from Alfred Brendel, Richard Goode, Jon Kimura Parker, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Martin Katz, Craig Sheppard, Robin McCabe, Ann Schein, Wei-Yi Yang, Henri-Paul Sicsic, Hiromi Okada, Victor Rosenbaum, Prisca Benoit, and Ieva Jokubaviciute.

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Aside from her love for music, Annie enjoys spending hours at museums, practicing Taekwondo (in which she holds a black belt), experimenting with delicious new recipes, and hiking nature's beautiful trails.