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Vicky Chow
PianistCanadian pianist Vicky Chow has performed extensively as a classical and contemporary soloist, chamber musician, and ensemble member, and been hailed as ?brilliant? and ?riveting? by New York Times critic, Anthony Tommasini. She has performed in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 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 Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Music Festival, Golandsky Institute International Piano Festival, the f(x) New Music Marathon in Miami, Desert Chamber Music Society, Seattle Chamber Music Society, and Las Vegas Music Festival.
Ms. Chow made her orchestral debut at the age of 10 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared since with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Symphony, The Vancouver Academy Orchestra, White Rock Festival String Orchestra and the B.C. Sinfonietta. She has performed under numerous conductors, including James Conlon, JoAnne Falleta, Bramwell Tovey, Victor Feldbrill, Jeffrey Milarsky, and Clyde Mitchell. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with New York Philharmonic flutist Renee Siebert and Metropolitan Opera soprano Janet Hopkins at the Desert Chamber Music Society and cellist Andre Emelianoff of the Da Capo Chamber Players. She is currently a member of two contemporary ensembles: AXIOM ensemble and Zero Gravity. In addition to performing new music, Ms. Chow also produces concert programs of new compositions by emerging composers at the Chelsea Art Museum and Gershwin Hotel in New York City.
As a competitor, she placed first in the Canadian Music Competition four consecutive years. She 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 is currently pursuing a second master?s degree in Contemporary Piano Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, where she studies with Anthony de Mare and Christopher Oldfather. Previously she received her Bachelor and Master of Music at The Juilliard School, where she studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Julian Martin. Previously, she studied at the Vancouver Academy of Music with Lorraine Ambrose. Ms. Chow has performed in master classes with a number of distinguished pianists, including Jerome Lowenthal, Ruth Laredo, Ursula Oppens, Menahem Pressler, and Angela Cheng. Ms. Chow resides in New York City.
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