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Winston Choi - Saturday, November 3, 2007

 

Our first Spotlight performance will feature Winston Choi. Winston is a concert pianist. We saw Winston at Alberta Showcase and enjoyed his performance.

Laureate of the 2003 Honens International Piano Competition and winner of France’s 2002 Concours International de Piano 20e siècle d’Orléans, Canadian pianist Winston Choi is one of today’s most dynamic young concert artists.

Choi has performed in recital and with orchestra across North and South America, Asia and Europe, including recent appearances at the National Arts Centre of Canada, the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, Merkin Recital Hall, The Kennedy Center, the Kravis Center and at the "Circle Grans Solistes" in Spain. A favourite in France, Choi has toured that country extensively, performing in such venues as the Salle Cortot, in Lille's Festival Rencontre Robert Casadesus, the Messiaen Festival and IRCAM' prestigious Agora festival. Other festivals have included the Bay Chamber Concerts, the Fontana Chamber Arts Series, the Green Lake Music Festival, the Peninsula Music Festival, and Parry Sound's Festival of Sound. His performances can regularly be heard on CBC Radio.

As a concerto soloist, Choi has appeared with orchestras including l'Orchestre National de Lille, l'Orchestre Symphonique d'Orleans, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the CBC Radio Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo symphony, the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra, La Orquesta Sinfonica National de Columbia, the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra and the Kalistos Chambre Orchestra. He also regularly tours with his wife, violinist Minghuan Xu, as Duo Diorama, and has collaborated with artists including Robert Aitken, Denis Brott, James Campbell, Malcolm Lowe, Scott St. John and Thomas Robertello.

Choi is dedicated to premiering and commissioning works by both emerging and established composers, for which he is a recipient of grants from the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music and the Canada Council for the Arts. This commitment to the creative process has led him to collaborate with William Bolcom, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough, George Bright Sheng, Christian Wolff and John Zorn.

The compete piano works of Elliott Carter (l'Empreinte Digitale in France) were recorded for Choi's debut C and this project received five stars from BBC Music Magazine. He has also recorded two discs of the piano music of Jaques Lenot for the Intrada label, having won the Grand Prix u Disque from l'Academe Charles Cros for Volume I. He can also be heard on the Arktos, Crystal Records, QuadroFrame and Southport Records labels.

Choi was Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano at Oberlin Conservatory in 2006.

 

Tracks

You can listen to some of Winston's Music.

Reviews

"His playing was simply stunning: brawny, virile and exciting, featuring razor sharp finger work and careful attention to overall pacing. In short, he's a major young talent with star potential."
New Music Connoisseur

"A gifted virtuoso, Choi maintained a relaxed, unwavering concentration uncomplicated by physical showmanship. The young pianist made the notoriously difficult work seem effortless, giving the audience the illusion that it would be impossible for him to stumble."
The Kitcher-Waterloo Record

It is easy to be impressed not only by the skill level of his technique but by a poetry in the hands and heart."
Herald Times, Bloomington, Indiana

"... sheer elan and pianistic devilment ..."
BBC Magazine (5 stars)

Web Site

Winston's Choi's Web Site

 

2008 - 2009
Season

John Wort Hannam
Sept. 27, 2008

Matt Anderson
Nov. 1, 2008

Shooglenifty
Nov. 22, 2008

Bottom Line Duo
Feb. 7, 2009

Carlos del Junco
March 7, 2009

Keri Lynn Zwicker
April 4, 2009

Harry Manx
May 2, 2009

Bragg Creek
Festival
May 29 & 30, 2009