Chia Chou (born 1960) is a
Taiwanese
pianist, and a naturalised
Canadian citizen. He settled in Germany in the 1980s.
He had his first public performance at the age of 7.
In 1980–81, he won the
Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin and the second edition of the
Sydney Competition;
a wide international concert career ensued. In 1983 he became the first artist with Chinese ancestry living abroad to perform in China since the
Cultural Revolution.
Chou is a member of the Parnassus Trio since 1990
and a professor in
Chamber Music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...
at the
Kunstuniversität Graz since 2004.
References
Taiwanese classical pianists
Canadian classical pianists
1960 births
Living people
Sydney International Piano Competition prize-winners
Canadian musicians of Taiwanese descent
21st-century classical pianists
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