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- ).
References
- The New York Times, July 1981
- Kunstuniversität Graz
- Oehms Classics
- Trio Parnassus
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