hezekiah leung, VIOLA
Praised for his “lovely lyricism” by The Calgary Herald, Hezekiah Leung has been featured as a performer throughout North America and Europe as both a soloist and as the founding violist of the Rolston String Quartet—winner of the First Prize at the 12th Banff International String Quartet Competition.
After completing his studies as a violinist at the University of Michigan under the tutelage of Stephen Shipps, Leung pursued his artist diploma on the viola with Stephen Dann and Barry Shiffman and received top prizes in the Glenn Gould Chamber Music Competition as well as the 74th Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Standard Life Competition. He holds a Masters degree from Rice University, an Artist Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music and was part of the Fellowship Quartet in Residence at the Yale School of Music as a member of the Rolston String Quartet.
Leung has shared the concert stage with such artists as Tabea Zimmerman, Leif Ove Andsnes, Gilbert Kalish, Jon Kimura Parker, Miguel da Silva, James Dunham, Paul Neubauer, Yura Lee, Donald Palma, Joel Quarrington, Andrés Díaz, Gary Hoffman, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cho-Liang Lin, Tara Helen O’Connor, David Shifrin Sharon Kam and James Campbell.
As a founding member of the Rolston String Quartet, he was also awarded Grand Prize at the 31st Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition, as well as the Astral Artists National Auditions. The quartet has performed at some of the most prestigious concert venues on the globe, including Carnegie Hall, the Louvre, Kennedy Center, Koerner Hall and Wigmore Hall. Keeping in the teaching tradition, they have taught at the Yale School of Music, University of Toronto, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival among others. Their debut album Souvenirs, an all-Tchaikovsky released in 2020 was named Recording of the Year by BBC Music Magazine. Leung joined the Dover Quartet as their violist for the 2022-2023 season and has served on faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music and at Northwestern Bienen School of Music.