Eliza Ip is a fourth generation musician who first learned piano from her mother, Chi Ming Ip, a student of the famed Harry Ore in Hong Kong, classmate of Sergei Prokofiev and collaborator with the great Chinese violinist Ma Sicong.  As a young child, she had studied with the performer and professor of the piano department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, LI Min-duo.  After graduating from music at UBC with a Bachelor and a Master's, she honed her educational skills, developing unique and powerful ways to teach practical and theoretical subjects, assuring that students learn music with passion, ease, discipline, and dedication.  

Since she began teaching in the mid-1980s, she has always held that a genuine relationship with music is first and foremost built from a sacred and positive relationship between teacher and student.  Her students have won competitions, received the highest marks in the RCM provincially, and have been accepted into undergraduate and graduate departments in North American universities including UBC, U Vic, SFU, University of San Francisco, Falmouth University (United Kingdom), etc.  Not only has she fostered classical students, but also has taught and developed students who have gone on to careers in up and coming Vancouver heavy metal bands like Exterminatus and Ev0lution.  She proudly counts Wendy Cheung as one of her students who has gone on to great success as a composer in Asia.