Verity Leung

Age – 15

Country – Canada

Verity Leung studies piano with Wayne Weng in Vancouver, Canada. She has participated in master classes with Wha Kyung Byun, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Krzysztof Jablonski, Boris Slutsky, Dang Thai Son, Ilana Vered, and the late John Perry. Verity’s playing has been described as “sensitively nuanced” and “artistically thoughtful” with “beautiful fluency and facile flair.”

Verity is the recipient of many piano awards on the provincial and national levels. She won First Prize in the 2021 and 2022 Canadian Music Competition, and the 2021, 2023 and 2024 British Columbia Provincials. In 2024, she won the solo piano category in the Canada West Performing Arts Festival, which was open to provincial winners from British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. She was a finalist in the Kaufman International Youth Piano Competition in New York City in 2024. Verity is a three-time Gold Medalist of the Royal Conservatory of Music in 2018, 2022, and 2024 for National ARCT Piano. In 2025, she was the overall prize winner in the Steinway Competition Canada and was selected to participate in Morningside Music Bridge held at the New England Conservatory.

Verity seeks to communicate the beauty of classical music to enrich the community at large. Her CD album Childhood Memories through the Ages (2020) and her charity concert entitled In Veritate et Caritate (2024) raised over $45,000 to support refugee claimants in Vancouver.

Outside of piano and philanthropy, Verity is a passionate parkour practitioner, percussionist, and poet. She has a black belt in Taekwondo, and she coaches debate weekly.