Dr. Annie Wong is a passionate and experienced performer, educator, and adjudicator. She is on the piano faculty at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, teaches chamber music and master classes at the Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists, and is a member of the RCM College of Examiners. She previously served on the faculties at the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney as well as Shenandoah University and the Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy in the United States. Her pedagogical gamut is wide, having taught undergraduate and graduate students in piano performance, concert performance classes, chamber music, music theory, music history, aural skills and musicianship, and keyboard harmony. Annie has been invited as a juror for international piano competitions in Australia, Macau, and Indonesia, and frequently adjudicates music festivals.
Her performances have been described as "imaginative and evocative" and audiences are thrilled by her "powerhouse" exuberance. Performances have taken her across Canada, the United States, and Australia, to 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 won first prize at the Virginia Music Teachers Association Concerto Competition and Shenandoah Conservatory Concerto Competition, and was a prizewinner in the Bjorn and Lori Hareid Competition and the Vancouver Women's Musical Society Scholarship Competition.
Annie received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree on a full scholarship from Shenandoah University in Virginia, her Master of Music degree from the Mannes School of Music in New York City, and her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia. Her principal teachers in her advanced studies include Dr. John O'Conor, Professor Irina Morozova, Professor Jane Coop, and Dr. Terence Dawson.
Aside from her love for music, Annie enjoys exploring museums, practicing Taekwondo (in which she holds a black belt), and watching her two young boys discover the world.