Karen Ng

[1] In addition to taken courses Humber College, she has studied privately with Sundar Viswanathan, Mike Murley, Kelly Jefferson, Don Palmer, and Pat Labarbara, and has been awarded numerous professional development grants.

In 2015 Ng received a Chalmers Professional Development Grant from the Ontario Arts Council, which allowed her to study with ICP Orchestra saxophonists in Amsterdam and Berlin.

[3] Ng was awarded a second grant by the Ontario Arts Council as part of the 2018 National and International Residency Projects program.

[1] She has also been a regular contributor to experimental and improvisational ensembles including Convergence, Imaginary Flesh and Woodshed Orchestra, a group led by Dave Clark.

In a 2017 Musicworks interview with Mary Dickie she explained: "Being hypersensitive to your surroundings, being able to read people, having to learn about expectations from each other—those are skills that you might not necessarily use in a musical sense."