AMY LEUNG
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Cello, Chamber Music, String Studies. Coordinator for Virtuoso Series & Sundays@7 Faculty Series
email: amy.leung@utah.edu
office (801) 587-9657
fax (801) 581-5683
1375 E Presidents Circle
Salt Lake City, UT 84103
Cellist Amy Leung graduated from the New England Conservatory and earned her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree as a Guarneri Fellow at the University of Maryland. She was Associate Clinical Professor at the George Washington University and served on the faculty of the University of Virginia where she directed the UVA Chamber Music Series. Currently she is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Utah where she teaches cello, chamber music, string methods, and is Coordinator for the Virtuoso Series and the Sundays@7 faculty series. Dr. Leung has given master classes and lecture/demonstrations at Beijing Central Conservatory, Georgetown University, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Urban Council, ASTA/ESTA International Workshops in Graz and the Duke Ellington School for the Arts (Washington, DC). She was involved in developing outreach presentations for the education division of the Kennedy Center, which were given at the Arts Club of Washington, and was involved in creating a similar program entitled “Quartet Conversations” at the Smithsonian Institution.
Dr. Leung has been a guest performer with the Emerson and Guarneri Quartets, and the Kennedy Center Theatre Chamber Players. She appeared regularly with Washington Musica Viva as well as the Washington Bach Consort, directed by J.Reilly Lewis, with whom she performed Bach’s Gamba Sonata in G major in anationally-televised event at the White House. An enthusiastic performer of new music, she was winner ofthe Kranichsteiner Musikpreis für Interpretation at the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt in Germany, and has premiered numerous solo andchamber works. She took part in the Toru Takemitsu festival at the Library of Congress, and has performed the music of MacArthur Genius Grant winner Bright Sheng, with the composer at the piano.
As a founding member of the Coolidge Quartet Dr. Leung performed throughout the United States in such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston, MIT Guest Artist Series, Carolina Chamber Players and the Meadowmount School of Music, as well as in Europe, Hong Kong, Guatemala, Israeland Australia. The group studied extensively with the Emerson and Guarneri Quartets, and participated in Isaac Stern’s Jerusalem Chamber Music Encounters, the Aspen Center for Advanced Quartet Studies and the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, France. The quartet won prizes in the Fischoff and Yellow Springs National Competitions and recorded for the Classico Label (Olufsen Records).
Dr. Leung has played in the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera Orchestra, has been a member of the Hartford Symphony and Principal Cello of the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra under Lorin Maazel. During the summer she plays in theGrand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, WY and coaches chamber music at Music at Menlo, directed by David Finckel and Wu Han.