Zabrina Ng is a Vancouver-based pianist and educator with a keen interest in dance and vocal collaboration.
Zabrina received her Bachelor’s in piano performance from the Royal College of Music studying with Professors Peter Jablonski and Nigel Clayton. She was a Faculty of Arts Graduate Award recipient at the University of British Columbia, graduating with a Masters under Professor Corey Hamm. In her earlier years she studied at the Vancouver Academy of Music with Professor Saida Matyukov. Those early years afforded her solo appearances with the Richmond Orchestra, the Stradivarius Ensemble, and the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra.
She has received mentorship from masterclasses held by Stephanie Leon Shames and Jonathan Shames, Kathryn Brown, Niel Immelman, Steven Osborne, Joyce Yang, Angela Cheng, and Lee Kum-Sing. More recent awards include a grant from the Albert Cooper Strings Trust Fund; the Kenneth and Violet Scott Scholarship; and the Bach and Impressionist prizes from the 2022 edition of the Architecture of Music Competition.
Presence of mind, empathy, determination, agency, sense of something larger than one’s self – these are just some of the qualities Zabrina believes musical education can develop. In her teaching, Zabrina celebrates each individual’s creative vision and the work needed to achieve it.