Conrad Chow, Violin

8/1/2006
Beginning my term at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, as Visiting Assistant Professor

7/31/2006
Recital with Linda Perry, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, American Suzuki Institute

6/23/2006
6th Prize, at International Stepping Stone Competition

6/17/2006
Advanced to 3rd and Final Round, International Stepping Stone Competition

6/15/2006
Advanced to the 2nd Round, International Stepping Stone Competition

6/5/2006
My Website is born!

5/18/2006
I completed my Doctorate of Musical Arts at SUNY Stonybrook

Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, violinist Conrad Chow is quickly establishing himself as an exciting young artist to watch. 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. Dr. Chow completed his DMA from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, having studied under noted violinists Pamela Frank, Ani Kavafian, and Philip Setzer. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Violin at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the 2006-2007 season.

Recently, Dr. Chow was a prizewinner at the 2006 International Stepping Stone Competition in Quebec. He was also a feature performer at the 2007 New Brunswick Summer Music Festival, the 2006 Guest Artist for the American Suzuki Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, and the David G. Whitcomb Foundation's Young Artist for 2003.

His recent appearances as soloist have included performances with the Brampton Symphony, Columbia Festival Orchestra, and the CAST Philomusica Orchestra. He has performed in such venues as the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Bloomington's Auer Hall, New York's Staller Center for the Arts, and Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio and Weston Recital Hall at the Toronto Center for the Arts, and recent recitals have included performances in the Dalhousie Faculty Chamber Series and St. Cecilia Concert Series and have been broadcast on CBC Radio.

Dr. Chow is an active chamber musician, having studied with the Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet and appearing in chamber music performances with Paul Biss, Christina Dahl, David Finckel, and Miriam Fried. In 2001, his string quartet was 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.

Dr. Chow began his violin studies at the age of 3 with Janet Wilchfort, and later with Alec Hou at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He went on to complete his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Indiana University's School of Music, where he studied under Miriam Fried, celebrated soloist and first violinist of the Mendelssohn String Quartet.