Conrad Chow
Canadian violinist Conrad Chow has captivated audiences throughout the world as both performer and pedagogue. A review in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald praised "the full, sweet, seductive intensity of Chow's sound," and his performance alongside Ani Kavafian with the Columbia Festival Orchestra was hailed as "ornate and satisfying" by the Albany Times Union. In 2006, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Violin at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Dr. Chow earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Indiana University's School of Music, studying with Miriam Fried. He went on to complete his DMA from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, having studied under Pamela Frank, Ani Kavafian, and Philip Setzer, and later pursued further post-doctoral work with Eduard Schmieder at Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr. Chow was a laureate at the 2006 International Stepping Stone Competition in Quebec. He has also been a feature performer at the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival, the American Suzuki Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, and was selected as the David G. Whitcomb Foundation's Young Artist of 2003. His recent appearances as soloist have included performances with the Brampton Symphony, Scarborough Philharmonic, and a collaboration between members of the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and the UTS Chamber Orchestra under the baton of maestro Ruben Gazarian. As a guest artist over the last two years for the Free The Children musical fundraiser, Music for Change, he last appeared with the Sneak Peak Orchestra to perform the premiere of Kevin Lau's violin rhapsody: Water of Life. He has performed in such venues as the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Qingdao Music Hall in China, New York's Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall) and Staller Center for the Arts; UCLA and Disney Hall in LA, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, and Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio and George Weston Recital Hall, and recent recitals have included performances in the St. Cecilia Concert Series, and the University of Toronto’s Hart House Sunday Concert Series, and have been broadcast on CBC Radio.
Dr. Chow is also an active chamber musician, having studied extensively with the Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet. In 2001, his string quartet was grand-prize winner of the Indiana University Kuttner String Quartet Competition, granting the group the honor of performing as the quartet-in-residence for the 2001-2002 season. He has also appeared as a member of the prestigious iPalpiti Chamber Orchestra since 2008. In 2010, he made his Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall debut alongside flautist Samantha Chang and pianist Ellen Meyer. In August of 2010, he will be a performer and member of the faculty at the Summit Summer Music Festival in New York.
Dr. Chow has served as jury member and adjudicator of various Canadian competitions and is a frequent presenter of masterclasses in Canada, the United States, and Asia. As the teacher of one of the leading precollege private violin studios in Canada, his students have won many important national and provincial competitions, earned top honors and medals at the Royal Conservatory of Music and other Canadian institutions, and are sought out as performers in recitals and galas throughout Ontario. Students of his current class include members of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and National Youth Orchestra of Canada, and have made solo debuts with orchestras such as the Canadian Sinfonietta, Koffler Chamber Orchestra, and Sherbrooke Orchestra.
For more information, please visit www.conradchow.org
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