Gabrielle in the News
Kid Musician
Gabrielle Chou in Performance!
6-year-old
Hungarian Dance
No.5 by Brahms
11-year-old
Her composition
with her brother
11-year-old
Rondo a Capriccio
by Beethoven
10-year-old
Zigeunerweisen
by Sarasate
8-year-old
Sonata K.545-1
by Mozart
If you enjoyed her videos above, you many find out many more of her performances on the
video
page and composition page, where you can also download her original composition score.

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Gabrielle's
parents - Richard & Grace                                            Last update:    6-30-2009
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Gabrielle on TV
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周雅雯 (Gabrielle) 感謝 惠玲, 彩惠, 玉英阿姨,
與其他許多鄉親朋友們的支持與鼓勵
Fox News
"Shooting Stars"
5-18-2005
WLRN Public Television
"American Ideal "
12-21-2005
NBC News
Lang Lang Master Class
3-29-2006
WLRN Public Television
"American Ideal II"
7-10-2006
WLRN Public Television
"American Ideal III"
4-27-2007
(3-23-2008)
Gabrielle at Carnegie Hall
- shaking hands with the maestro
Thomas Sleeper
Welcome to the website of 13-year-old violinist, pianist, and composer Gabrielle Chou
(周雅雯).
She is the concertmaster of the Florida Youth Orchestra (Principal Orchestra),
and a piano and violin soloists with
Coral Gables Chamber Symphony, Boynton Regional
Symphony Orchestra, and Alhambra Orchestra. Here is her 2009 concert appearances.

Since 2000, she has been the first place winner of more than 40 Florida state competitions in
violin, piano and composition. In 2008, at age 12, she is already the winner of both FFMC
senior violin concerto and senior piano concerto. In 2009, she won the
All Performance.

As a young composer, Gabrielle has been an American regional and divisional winner and
therefore a national finalist four times. She received her first national award in 2009. She is
"among the nation's finest young composers" according to the Executive Director of the
Music Teachers National Association.

Gabrielle had her first international competition on both violin and piano in 2006. She won
the 4th place at the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in Italy and
received an award at
the 10th Ettlingen International Piano Competition in Germany.






In September 2008, she competed in Asia for the first time in
the 12th Taipei International
Chopin Piano Competition with another 137 contestants. After two rounds / two weeks, she
was chosen as one of the eight finalists and she had a great time to perform Chopin Concerto
No.2 with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall.

Gabrielle has played for
Lang Lang, Murray Perahia, Susan Starr, Elmar Oliviera, Robert
McDonald and many other prominent musicians. From 2005 to 2008, she has annually
performed as a soloist with the
Coral Gables Chamber Symphony for the classical music
program "
American Ideal" - recorded live for public television (PBS/WLRN). The recordings
are available in the left panel. You should be able to click the picture to play the videos.

In 2007, we created an
YouTube KidMusician channel as an extension and invitation to our
website. Listed below are some of her latest YouTube posting (1st line) and her YouTube
favorites (2nd line). You are invited to click the picture below to watch them.
WLRN Public Television
"American Ideal IV"
4-25-2008
Gabrielle wants to be a concert musician and we've been looking for sponsorship and/or
scholarship for her music education, but so far, not much success. We will appreicate that
if you can provide helpful information or financial support. We're currently fundraising for
her international competitions this summer. Pleaes
contact us if you can help or get a DVD.
Practice Chopin
Piano Concerto
No2, 1st mvt
Solo with Alhambra
Orchestra -
Mendelssohn violin
concerto
Performed for
NFMC national
conference -
Debussy Toccata
Performed for the
State competition  -
Tchaikovsky violin
concerto
Beethoven
Piano Sonata
"Pathetique"
1st mvt
True music lies between the notes.
~ Mozart