Edward Leung is a 22-year- old America pianist who graduated last year from Princeton University. In 2015, he won the Top Prize at the Thirteenth Thousand Islands International Piano Competition. He also won first prizes in the Five Towns Music and Art Foundation Young Musician Competition and the Princeton University Orchestra Concerto Competition. Other awards include first prizes in the 2012 Julie Jordan Presents' International Piano Concerto Competition, 2012 West Point Band Young Artist Competition, 2011 Thirty-Second Friday Woodmere Young Artist Competition, 2010 Princeton Festival Piano Competition, and 2009 Twelfth New York Music Competition. Recently he won 2nd prize in the Liszt Society Piano Competition. In 2016-2017, he was the youngest of eight pianists selected worldwide to participate in the Wilhelm Kempff Academy's Beethoven master classes. He has performed in concert halls across North America, Europe and Asia. This year he is based in London, where he was named the inaugural Aske-Princeton International Fellow at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. He studies privately with Pascal Nemirovski.

The Jacquin Trio have been described in Classical Music Magazine as one of the "front runners taking to the chamber music stage", and are rapidly establishing a reputation for their dynamic performances and spirited music making. Winners of the Royal Overseas League and the St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competitions, the trio have performed extensively across the UK as Making Music artists and in some of the most prestigious venues in the country. They have been recognised with awards from the Park Lane Group, the Solti Foundation, the Fidelio Trust, the 19th International Chamber Music Competition in Thessaloniki, Greece, the RCM's Douglas Whittaker Prize, and the Tunnell Trust, the latter seeing them complete a critically acclaimed tour of Scotland in 2014.The Jacquins were also delighted to be ensemble in residence at the Forge, Camden where they curated a successful series celebrating some of the most exciting music for the ensemble, past and present. In 2015, the trio received enthusiastic reviews for their performances at the Banff Centre's prestigious summer chamber music residency, where they studied intensively with the eminent pianist Gilbert Kalish. This year they will attend the International Musicians Seminar 2016 at Prussia Cove supported by the Solti Foundation. In addition to their concert schedule, the trio are well experienced in music education and outreach projects, particularly through their long and ongoing association with Live Music Now. The Jacquin Trio have already had several works written especially for them by both established and up and coming composers and are extending their repertoire with current commissions, including one from acclaimed composer Charlotte Bray.

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