An Evening with Cary Chow, Piano

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Friday, December 4th, 2009
7:30 PM

This concert will feature Rachmaninov sonata no.1 opus 28 as well as works by Brahms, Chopin, and Liszt.

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 Franz Liszt to George Crumb and beyond, and he seamlessly traverses these epochs and genres.

Cary Chow has performed with conductors as diverse as Mario Bernardi and Gerard Schwarz in concerti from Mozart through Rachmaninoff; collaborated in recital with instrumentalists of the caliber of cellist Shauna Rolston, violinist Moshe Hammer and clarinetist Jonathan Cohler; and performed many recent works by pre-eminent composers such as Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Gilles Tremblay and Derek Bermel.

Cary Chow’s first solo CD recording was released in 1999 on the Tintagel label, and featured Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Sonata and the Variations on a Theme of Corelli. His second solo CD, an indie release entitled Zirkus (Step Inside), featuring Carnaval and Kreisleriana by Robert Schumann (and featuring distinctive and decidedly “non- classical” artwork) was released in 2007, and continues to generate enthusiastic reviews. Future recording projects in the CD/SACD/DVD-A formats include Liszt B Minor Sonata and Après une lecture du Dante, the late Prokofieff Sonatas, Beethoven “Hammerklavier” Sonata and Samuel Barber’s Piano Sonata. Collaborative CD projects in the near future include a definitive library of the standard trumpet repertoire with Larry Knopp, Principal Trumpet of the Vancouver Symphony, the Brahms clarinet sonatas with Sean Osborn (formerly of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra); completed recordings slated for release are a CD of horn repertoire with David Cooper, Principal Horn of the Victoria Symphony, and trumpet repertoire with Louis Ranger (formerly of New York Philharmonic).

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. During 2004 - 06, he was Collaborative Artist in Residence at The Morningside Music Bridge program in Calgary, Canada. Since 2005, he appears annually as Guest Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music Attached Middle School in Beijing, China; in 2006, he made his first appearance at Xing Hai Conservatory in Guangzhou, China.

In addition to holding a Master of Music, he has also completed the coursework for a Master of Business Administration degree from Royal Roads University, formerly Royal Roads Military College.

Cary Chow is represented in Canada by Marilyn Gilbert Artists Management.

Tickets on sale now at the McPherson Box Office or by phone: (250) 386-6121 (service charge per ticket) online www.rmts.bc.ca

http://www.carychow.com/