Chia Chou

Chia Chou (born 1960) is a Taiwanese pianist, and a naturalised Canadian citizen. He settled in Germany in the 1980s.

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 (1990- ), and a professor in Chamber Music at the Kunstuniversität Graz (2004- ).

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