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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:    10-2-2009
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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
(6-18-2009)
Gabrielle's
first mission trip to Haiti
Welcome to the website of 14-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, Alhambra Orchestra, and Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra.

Since 2000, she has been the first place winner of more than 40 Florida state competitions in
violin, piano and composition including
winning of the senior violin concerto and senior piano
concerto competition (on the same day) at age 12
. 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. In 2009, she also became a winner in YCC competition.

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 finally selected as one of the eight finalists and she had a great time performing Chopin
Concerto No.2 with the
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall.

In August 2009, she received the Highly Commended Award (Honorable Mention) in
the 2nd
Manchester International Piano Concerto Competition, August 15 – 22, Manchester, England.

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
can click the pictures to play or download 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 postings (in the 1st line) and her
YouTube favorites (in the 2nd line). You are invited to click the picture below to watch them.
WLRN Public Television
"American Ideal IV"
4-25-2008
Gabrielle is now in the 9th grade at the West Broward High. She wants to study in a
prestige music school soon, so we are looking for sponsorship and/or scholarship for her
music education. Pleaes
contact us if you can provide help or helpful information. Thanks!
If you want to get a copy of her performance collection DVD, please
click here.
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
(3-23-2008)
Gabrielle at Carnegie Hall
- shaking hands with the
maestro
Thomas Sleeper