Hezekiah Leung – Viola

Praised for his “lovely lyricism” by The Calgary Herald, and hailed for his “intelligent and
diverse treatment of vibrato… tailored to the individual personality of any given theme or
moment” by Chicago Classical Review, Hezekiah Leung has been featured as a performer
throughout North America and Europe, both as 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.

Leung has shared the concert stage with renowned artists such as Tabea Zimmermann, 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 and the Astral Artists National Auditions. The
quartet has performed at some of the world’s most prestigious concert venues, including
Carnegie Hall, the Louvre, the Kennedy Center, Koerner Hall, and Wigmore Hall. Their debut
album Souvenirs, an all-Tchaikovsky release in 2020, was named Recording of the Year by BBC
Music Magazine.

Leung served as the violist of the Dover Quartet during the 2022–2023 season and has held
faculty positions at both the Curtis Institute of Music and the Bienen School of Music at
Northwestern University. He is currently a member of the viola faculty at the University of
Toronto and a Chamber Music Coach at the Phil and Eli Taylor Academy of the Royal
Conservatory of Music. Following his recent appointment, Leung will join the viola section of
the Toronto Symphony Orchestra this fall.