Cary Chow: concert pianist, recording artist & piano teacher in Vancouver, BC Canada

"Freedom is the most important thing for the artist. Art and freedom are two things that must stay together."
- Paolo Fazioli

Cary Chow B&W by Mark Maryanovich

May 10, 2008
Solo recital at Showcase Pianos, 1224 Broadway in Vancouver between Alder & Birch.
Sunday June 15, 2008 @ 3:30pm
I'm going to put a black Ferrari through it's paces......actually the Ferrari of pianos,
the Fazioli F278 Concert Grand Piano. Program of Mozart through Prokofiev.
$20/10, seating is EXTREMELY limited, so get there early!

April 26, 2008
Here's a YouTube video of Chopin Second Ballade, part of the benefit recital
I played for Holy Resurrection Sobor's piano fund.

March 20, 2008
Apple iTunes FINALLY loaded Zirkus properly, so it is now available
there if you wish (even though CD Baby's files are higher quality).

Also, take a look and join me at my MySpace Music page -
so many fabulous musicians of all genres.

March 1, 2008
So I've finally created a MySpace Music page here.
I'll streamline it bit more during the next week.

January 22, 2008
Review of Zirkus (Step Inside): "A superb interpretation of these two works...technique is flawless...."
Read the full review Buy CD or download mp3 here

December 17, 2007
Review of Zirkus (Step Inside): "Those wise enough to slip this CD into their collection will be
rewarded with a truly magnificent rendition of Kreisleriana..."
Read the full review Buy CD or download mp3 here

December 14, 2007
I just finished recording a CD for David Cooper, Principal Horn of the Victoria Symphony.
Produced by my old colleague Lou Ranger (NY Philharmonic, University of Victoria) and
engineered by Kirk McNally (University of Victoria). Great program consisting of
Hindemith Althorn Sonata, Madsen Sonata and selected works by Strauss,
Dukas, Schumann, Damase, Rossini and Bozza. Anticipated release mid-2008.

September 14, 2007
OK OK, so I got bumped off the cover, replaced by the hot(shot) violinist Sarah Chang ;-)
Anyway, read Jessica Werb's article about me in the Georgia Straight
I'm also in Fred Lee's column in the Vancouver Courier

September 10, 2007
Thanks to everyone who showed up for the Zirkus CD release concert and made it such a success:
Fred Lee (CBC Radio, Vancouver Courier) for hosting the VIP reception
and the great blurb on CBC's The Morning Edition
Timothy Vernon (conductor of Pacific Opera Victoria) for emceeing the evening concert
and doing a fantastic reading of passages from ETA Hoffman's Tomcat Murr
and Victor Hugo's Après une lecture de Dante
Quattro Artisti for doing a super entertaining opening act
Dar & Les Patterson for the great trays of food at the VIP reception
Tom Lee Music for the Steinway D
Our poster people, friends, colleagues, couldn't have done better!
And to Akeiko for handling the publicity machine almost singlehandedly :-)

September 7, 2007
Zirkus (Step Inside) available now at cdbaby.com/cd/carychow!

August 20, 2007
I have been OVERHAULED! Welcome to my new site! Revel in the graphics, listen to the samples from my new CD available mid-August 2007, grab an eyeful of the super new publicity photos, visit the Fans' Arena to post your pix, comments and questions, and just plain enjoy yourself. I (or the webmaster) will update, tweak and add content regularly, so be sure to check back inbetween your Facebook sessions LOL. If we've never met, the above quote pretty much sums me up. However, let me assume the official third person (much like Alice Cooper does), so that the following doesn't seem like egregious self-promotion ;-)

"(Ahem)....About the artist:

Cary Chow captivates and electrifies audiences wherever he performs. Whether he is in Montreal or New York or Beijing, he receives both critical and popular acclaim. His intense yet engaging stage presence once earned him the moniker ‘a composite of Vladimir Horowitz and Ozzy Osbourne’. The breadth of his repertoire extends from J.S. Bach to Liszt to George Crumb and beyond, and he seamlessly traverses these epochs and genres.

He performs with conductors as diverse as Mario Bernardi and Gerard Schwarz in concerti from Mozart through Rachmaninoff; collaborates in recital with instrumentalists of the caliber of cellist Shauna Rolston, violinist Moshe Hammer and clarinettist Jonathan Cohler; and performs many recent works by composers such as Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Gilles Tremblay and Derek Bermel.

Cary Chow’s first compact disc recording on the Tintagel label was released in 1999, and featured Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Sonata and the Variations on a Theme of Corelli. Commercial recordings and multi-media/inter-disciplinary projects include Liszt Sonata in B Minor and Après une lecture du Dante, and Prokofiev Sonatas No. 6, 7 & 8. His second commercial CD Zirkus (Step Inside) was released independently in September 2007 and available from cdbaby.com in hard copy and digital download.

Until 2006, Cary Chow taught at the University of Victoria and the Victoria Conservatory of Music; he now coaches the Young Artist Experience at the University of British Columbia where he is known as 'The Enforcer'. In 2002, at the request of "Distinguished Professor of Violin" (France) Burkard Godhoff, he was Guest Professor for chamber music at the International Summer String Academy at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Between 2004 – 06, he was Collaborative Artist in Residence at the Morningside Music Bridge program in Calgary, Canada. Since 2005, he appears annually as a Guest Professor at Central Conservatory of Music & Attached Middle School in Beijing, China. In 2006, he also made his first appearance at Xing Hai Conservatory in Guangzhou, China.

Cary Chow studied with Winifred Scott Wood, Dr. Robin Wood and Rena Sharon at the Victoria Conservatory of Music. By age fifteen, he had achieved the AVCM and LVCM (Victoria) and ARCT (Toronto) diplomas in piano performance; at age sixteen, he made his New York recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; at age eighteen, he was awarded the DipRAM, the highest prize from the Royal Academy of Music in London, England, where he studied with renowned professor Christopher Elton. In addition to holding a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music (with Distinction) in piano performance from the University of Victoria (with full University of Victoria Fellowship), he has completed the coursework for the Master of Business Administration degree at Royal Roads University, formerly Royal Roads Military College."

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.....So that's pretty much the story of my life in a nutshell. Enjoy your visit to my slightly warped world,
grab a hold of Zirkus (Step Inside) from cdbaby.com, and look forward to seeing you at the concerts!