Wayne Weng

Born in 1983, Canadian pianist Wayne Weng's playing has been described as having "delicacy amounting to almost reverence [...] through gossamer touch" to "bold, vibrant, and immensely musical" (Wiltshire Gazette & Herald). He has won prizes at the Haverhill Sinfonia Soloists Competition, the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Competition, and the Washington International Competition for Piano, where he "raised the excitement level of the afternoon several notches" (The Washington Post). He has also won prizes at the Pacific Piano Competition, CBC Debut Concert Artists Auditions, and Kingsville International Young Performers Competition. Wayne is a recipient of the 2009 Solti Foundation grant and the British Columbia Arts Council Senior Scholarship.

Wayne has appeared as a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Seattle, the Victoria Symphony Orchestra and the Avanti Orchestra. He has performed in Canada, the United States, Hong Kong, Holland, France, England, Serbia, Belgium, Austria and Egypt as a recitalist as well as a collaborative pianist. These include venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Steinway Hall New York, Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum, the 100 Club in London, the Bulgarian Consulate in New York, Ruïnekerk Bergen, the Cairo Opera House, the Orpheum Theatre Vancouver, the Vancouver Playhouse, Brahms Museum Mürzzuschlag, and the British Columbia Governor House. He has been featured on the radio stations such as WQXR New York, CBC Radio and Seattle King FM. He has also performed in special events such as the Conference of Governor General and Lieutenant Governors and the Order of St. Johns Conference.

Wayne has participated at such summer festivals as the International Holland Music Sessions, International Keyboard Institute and Festival, TCU/Cliburn Piano Institute, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Ecole d'Art Americaines in Fontainebleau, where he was awarded the Piano Prix. He has served as an adjudicator at the Chopin Youth Piano Competition in Houston and Festival on the Lake in Vancouver.

In 2006, Wayne received his Bachelor of Music degree along with the Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Natalya Antonova. Two years later, he earned his Master of Music degree from the Mannes College of Music, where he studied with Pavlina Dokovska. Thereafter he moved to London, where he was a student in the Advanced Instrumental Studies program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying with Joan Havill. Wayne is currently an Artist Diploma candidate at the Yale School of Music, where he studies with Peter Frankl.