Mindy Eng is a classically-trained pianist based in Toronto and is an active performer, collaborative pianist, and teacher. She completed her Bachelor's of Piano Performance at the University of Toronto, and is currently pursuing a Master's of Piano Performance & Pedagogy at the University of Toronto under the tutelage of Midori Koga and Steven Philcox. From a young age, she expressed a keen interest and passion for music, beginning her piano studies at the age of four, and receiving her ARCT in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) in 2020 with First Class Honours with Distinction.

 

Mindy has won numerous awards and scholarships for solo and concerto competitions at the Kiwanis, North York, Markham, Richmond Hill, Burlington, PEEL, and Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects (ACNMP) music festivals, as well as the International Maestro Piano and Strings Competition in 2018, in which she was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall. In 2023, she won the Ontario Music Festivals Association (OMFA) Provincial Finals for the Piano Concerto category with Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no. 2. She is a recipient of the University of Toronto Scholar Award, the Patricia Parr Scholarship, and the Miriam Neveren Memorial Scholarship.

 

In addition to performing around Toronto such as at the Living Arts Centre and for the music series hosted by the Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, Mindy has received scholarships to participate in music festivals around Canada. She attended the Orford Music Academy (Orford, QC), where she had the pleasure of studying with Ronan O’Hora, Jimmy Brière, and Stéphen Lemelin, and the Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival at Memorial University (St. John's, NL), where she played and performed Fauré’s Piano Quintet no. 1 and worked with Timothy Steeves.

 

As an avid collaborative pianist, she has performed a wide variety of piano-violin and piano trio repertoire, including works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Franck, and Piazzolla, as well as music written for eight hands. She has also played with large ensembles such as the University of Toronto Wind Symphony Orchestra, choirs, instrumentalists, and vocalists. Mindy has performed as a solo and chamber musician in masterclasses given by Jeremy Denk, Jamie Parker and Annalee Patipatanakoon of the Gryphon Trio, the Thalea String Quartet, Jonathan Crow, and Phillip Ying of the Ying Quartet.

 

For over six years, Mindy has shared her passion for music through teaching. She runs a studio that trains students of all ages and skill levels, offering beginner to advanced lessons.