Dan Luong is an award-winning Vietnamese-Canadian pianist and educator based in London, Ontario, whose career spans solo, chamber, and orchestral performance, teaching, adjudication, commissioning, and arts leadership.
Recent distinctions include a nomination for the Ontario Arts Council’s 2026 Turner Piano Prize, Third Prize at the 2025 Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition, a Special Prize at the 2025 Piano Island Competition in Bangkok, and Second Prize at the 2024 University of Florida International Piano Festival. Alongside his solo work, Dan has performed as an orchestral pianist with leading Ontario orchestras, including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, London Symphonia, Niagara Symphony Orchestra, and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
A central part of Dan’s artistic work is his commitment to Canadian and contemporary music. He regularly programs new Canadian works alongside established repertoire and collaborates directly with composers to commission and premiere new music, exploring extended techniques, live electronics, fixed media, amplification, and synthesizers. Recent projects include Scott Good’s Gazing at the Distance, which draws on his family’s refugee history, and Nic Bray’s Sunset Over Superior, written for piano and loop pedal.
Off the stage, Dan maintains a thriving private studio of more than 30 students in London. His students frequently earn scholarships and provincial festival recognition and achieve First Class Honours with Distinction results in RCM examinations. Students from his studio have also gone on to university music programs at Western University and McGill University. An RCM Certified Teacher, Dan holds regional and national RCM Gold Medals in Elementary and Intermediate Piano Pedagogy, respectively, and earned a Master of Music in Performance and Literature (Collaborative Piano) from Western University. His work as a performer and educator also extends to frequent adjudication engagements across Ontario.
Dan’s involvement in the wider musical community also extends to arts leadership. He serves as Music Director at Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, directing a choral and liturgical music program, and serves on the boards of the Ontario Music Festivals Association, Kiwanis Music Festival of London, and the Gordon Jeffrey Music Foundation. Through these roles, as well as his teaching and adjudication, he works to strengthen opportunities for young musicians and encourage a greater presence for Canadian repertoire in music education and performance.