Marie Ng-Au, a native Sudburian, began her first piano lessons at age three. Ever since she was four years old, she was actively competing at the Annual Sudbury Kiwanis Music Dance Festivals, as well as, completing the Royal and Western Conservatory of Music exams, receiving many awards, trophies and scholarships. Marie received her Associate Performer's & Teacher's Diplomas from the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music, London, and her B.A. from Laurentian University, Sudbury. She has been the President of the ORMTA from 1987 to 1988. Marie was a guest on several television INCO Showcase programs, as well as the Grace Rumball programs. Marie also performed her own solo recitals at the St. Andrew's place as well as at the Laurentian University Museum & Arts Centre, John St. Sudbury.

Marie has studied with Mr. Victor Comission, Sister Iren Morrow, Sister Shirley McNamara, Sister Annette Gratton, Sister Gabriel (all of the Marmount College of Music), Mrs. Eleanor Marzetti (of Laurentian University); Mr. John Hannah (of Cambrian College); Dr. Anthony Dawson, Mrs. Tanya Tkachenko (of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto); Dr. Jonathan Gonder, Dr. Douglas Webb, Mr. Malcolm Wechsler (of the Music Department in Laurential University). Marie completed her Teacher Training in the Suzuki Piano at the Suzuki Piano Institute in Queens University, Kingston, On. She also completed the Kindermusik In the Early Years and Young Child Level 1 training at York University, Toronto.

Several of Marie's students won awards for the Canadian Music Writing Competitions provincially and nationally. One student won the Silver Medal for the highest Grade 8 exam marks in the province, and at the same time winning the first $1000 A.J.Taylor Award for the highest marks nationally for Grades 8,9,10 in that examination session. Many of Marie's other students have won local and provincial festival scholarships and awards, as well.

Marie was on Part-time Faculty in the Music Department of Laurentian University and has taught in the Conservatory Piano Department, as well as, the Suzuki Piano Department of the Huntington Conservatory of Music, in Laurentian University, since 1982. Marie was one of the pioneers introducing the Kindermusik in the Early Years in the fall of 1992 at the Huntington Conservatory of Music. However, as of September 1998 Marie has given up teaching Kindermusik in the Early Years to join the Conservatory Canada Board of Examiners, London, On Marie jointed the Part-time Faculty in the Music Department of Cambrian College in September of 2002 as well as, the Cambrian College Academy of Music in September 2003.