Joyce Zheng is a Toronto-based pianist whose performances have taken her throughout Canada, the United States, the Netherlands, France, and Italy. Notable performances include those at the Weill Concert Hall of Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall New York, Steinway Hall Toronto, and for series by Music Toronto, the JUNOS, and the Canadian Opera Company. 

Along with her work as a soloist, Joyce is a passionate collaborative pianist, playing with instrumentalists, vocalists, and previously orchestras and choirs. During the 2020-21 season, she was the orchestral pianist of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra where she performed in Roy Thomson Hall and with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Her violin-piano duo has given performances in the private Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, Walter Hall, and for the Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation. She has also given chamber performances at Mazzoleni Hall of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and at the B. Gigli School of Music in Italy. Joyce has also given piano-vocal performances in the Canadian Opera Company’s Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre. Upcoming collaborative performances include participating in the 30th edition of the prestigious Académie Francis Poulenc in Tours, France as part of a piano-vocal duo. 

Joyce has been awarded scholarships to perform in festivals in Italy, France, Texas, San Francisco, and the Netherlands where she has worked with renowned artists such as Boris Slutsky, Anton Nel, Michelle Cann, and Boris Berman. She has also performed in public masterclasses in Toronto led by international visiting artists Ronan O'Hara, Claire Désert, Eric le Sage, and Kyoko Hashimoto. Joyce has won top prize awards in international music competitions for placing first at the New York Global Music Competition, Canadian International Music Competition-MOMA, and runner up at IPPA Conero Competition, as well as top prizes in competitions throughout Toronto. She was the recipient of the W. O Forsyth Graduating Scholarship upon completing her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance at the University of Toronto where she studied with Lydia Wong and Enrico Elisi. She is completing her Masters of Music in Performance at the University of Toronto under the guidance of Steven Philcox and Lydia Wong. 

As a supporter of new music, Joyce works with contemporary composers, most recently performing piano-vocal works by JUNO award winning composer, Vivian Fung, in the University of Toronto New Music Festival. She also played as part of a piano sextet for the JUNOs “reworked” series, performing a reworked composition in a Classical style. Her upcoming project will be a performance of her original composition for solo piano involving the use of multi-media through film, art, and dance in her graduating masters recital.