Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, violinist Conrad Chow is establishing himself as an exciting young artist. 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. He is a prize-winner of the 2006 International Stepping Stone Competition in Quebec, was a featured performer at the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival, the 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. An active chamber musician, he studied with the Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet and is 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-inresidence for the 2001-2002 seasons. 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, Qingdao Music Hall in China, New York's Carnegie Zankel Hall and Staller Center for the Arts; Disney Hall in LA, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, and Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio and George Weston Recital Hall. Recent recitals have included performances in the St. Cecilia Concert Series, and the University of Toronto’s Hart House Sunday Concert Series, broadcast on CBC Radio. In 2010, he made his Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall debut. He has also appeared as a member of the prestigious iPalpiti Chamber Orchestra since 2008. 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 began his violin studies at the age of three at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. His Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees are from Indiana University’s School of Music, studying with Miriam Fried. Conrad completed his DMA from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, under noted violinists Pamela Frank, Ani Kavafian, and Philip Setzer, and later pursued further post-doctoral work with Eduard Schmieder at Temple University in Philadelphia. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Violin at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the 2006-2007 seasons. Dr. Chow has served as jury member and adjudicator of various Canadian competitions and is a frequent presenter of master classes in Canada, the United States, and Asia. As the teacher of one of the leading precollege private violin studiosin Canada, his students have won many important national and provincial competitions, 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 Canadian orchestras.
