Vicky Chow

Canadian pianist Vicky Chow has performed extensively as a soloist, chamber musician, and ensemble member, and been hailed as 'brilliant' and 'riveting' by New York Times critic, Anthony Tommasini. She has performed in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Clark Studio Theatre, Orpheum Theatre, Roy Thomson Hall, Chan Center for the Performing Art, and the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, and has been a guest artist in the Desert Chamber Music Society, Seattle Chamber Music Society series, and Las Vegas Music Festival.

An advocate of contemporary music, Ms. Chow is currently pursuing a second Masters degree in Contemporary Piano Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, where she studies with Anthony de Mare and Christopher Oldfather, and performs in the program's new music ensemble, Zero Gravity. Last year for the Beyond the Machine 7.0 new music festival, she premiered an ensemble work by Edward Bilous with the Juilliard School's AXIOM Ensemble, a new work for piano and electronics by Andreas Weixler and Se-Lien Chuang, and performed Neil Rolnick's Digits for Piano and Computer. In February 2008, Ms. Chow will appear at Carnegie's Zankel Hall with Zero Gravity, and in March will perform in Miami's Contemporary Music Marathon, f(x). Along with performing new music, Ms. Chow also produces concert programs of new compositions by emerging composers, most recently at the Chelsea Art Museum and Gershwin Hotel in New York City.

Ms. Chow started playing the piano at age five and made her orchestral debut at 10 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Since then she has appeared with the Juilliard Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Academy Orchestra, White Rock Festival String Orchestra, the B.C. Sinfonietta. She has performed under numerous conductors, including Jeffrey Milarsky, JoAnne Falletta, Bramwell Tovey, Victor Feldbrill, and Clyde Mitchell, and also collaborated with Juilliard faculty cellist André Emelianoff, New York Philharmonic flutist Renée Siebert, and The Metropolitan Opera soprano Janet Hopkins.

As the winner of numerous awards and competitions, Ms. Chow earned international recognition early in her career. She placed first in the Canadian Music Competition four consecutive years, resulting in an invitation at the age of nine to the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Michigan as part of the Classical Music Prodigies Showcase in Michigan. Ms. Chow also won the Toronto Symphony Piano Competition and Juilliard Concerto competition, second prize in the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Piano Competition, third prize in the Pacific International Piano Competition, and a finalist and honorarium prize winner of the San Antonio International Piano Competition.

Ms. Chow received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music at The Juilliard School, where she studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Julian Martin. In Vancouver she studied with Lorraine Ambrose at the Vancouver Academy of Music and privately with Celia Hui. While at Juilliard, Ms. Chow participated in the Millenium International Festival in Spain, Piano Fest in the Hamptons, and the International Keyboard Festival at the Banff Center. She's also performed in master classes a number of distinguished pianists, including Ursula Oppens, Joseph Kalichstein, Matti Raekallio, Boris Slutsky, Dominique Weber, Angela Cheng, Jerome Lowenthal, Menahem Pressler, Paul Schenly, Daniel Shapiro, John Perry, Yong-Hi Moon, Marc Durand, Lee Kum-Sing, Marek Jablonski, Ruth Laredo, Gabriel Chodos and Jane Coop. Ms. Chow resides in New York City.