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News Bulletin: (click here for 2009 concerts)
(11/21/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of the Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra Concerto
Competition (High School Division) and will perform Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 1/23/2010.
(9/15/2009) - Gabrielle is one of the winners of the Young Composers Challenge which is
open to young adults living in the Southeastern United States. On top of a nice cash prize,
her winning composition "Canon and postlude for string trio" will be performed by the
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra at the Bob Carr Auditorium on November 1, 2009.
(8/20/2009) - Gabrielle gave a great performance and received Highly Commended Award
(Honorable Mention) in the 2nd Manchester International Piano Concerto Competition,
August 15 – 22, Manchester, England.
(620-6/27) - Gabrielle was in Haiti for mission works, including building schools.
(6/6/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of the Steinway Competition at Boca Raton.
(6/4/2009) - Last day of her middle school days. Gabrielle graduated from Silver Trail Middle
School with straight A (GPA 4.0) and will go to West Broward High School after summer.
(6/4/2009) - Gabrielle was very hornored to be invited to perform in National Federation of
Music Clubs Fifty-Fifth Biennial Convention in Orlando, Florida. She gave a 20 minutes of
program to this national convention for music teachers and professors.
(5/??/2009) - Gabrirelle received her first national award in composition competition.
(5/9/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of the FSMTA piano concerto comeptition.
(5/2/2009) - Gabrielle won the All Performance Award at the FFMC state competition.
(4/18/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of Walenstein Orchestra Music competition.
(2/27/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of the NFMC Southeastern Region (District of
Columbia/Washington DC, MD, VA, WV, KY, TN, MS, LA, AL, NC, SC, GA & FL)
composition competition and therefore a NFMC national finalist.
(2/1/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of the 5th Annual Ray Millette Young Artist Concerto
Competition of the Alhambra Orchestra. She will perform Mendelssohn violin concerto with
the Alhambra Orchestra on March 29.
(1/15/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of MTNA Southern Division (KY, TN, MS, AL, VA, NC,
SC, GA & FL) composition competition and therefore a MTNA national finalist.
...
(5/3/2008) - Gabrielle is a big winner in FFMC state competition, she's
Biography and Information:
Gabrielle Chou was born (in Auguest 1995) and grew up in South Florida. None of her
parents are musicians, but they both love classical music, so Gabrielle has been listening to
classical music before she was born. She began violin at age 4, piano at 5, and composition
officially at 9. She is currently a violin student of Carol and David Cole (at Cooper City), a
piano student of Maria Gomez (at Plantation) and music composition student of Donald
Waxman (at Boca Raton).
She was home-schooled for several years, but not anymore. In Fall 2008, she went to public
school at the Silver Trail Middle School and she will go to the West Broward High School in
Fall 2009. So far, she enjoys her school life very much, but sometime struggles to find
enough time of all of her music practice and composition.
________________________________________________________________________________
Gabrielle has won more than 40 events in Florida state competitions (by FFMC and FSMTA)
and many others for violin, piano and composition since 2000. The major events include piano
solo, piano duet, piano concerto, violin solo, violin duet and violin concerto. In some
catagories,Gabrielle has won the top level and graduated, so she started to participate some
international competition (Italy and Germany) in the summer of 2006, when she was 10.
________________________________________________________________________________
In the summer of 2006, 10-year-old Gabrielle had her first international competitions – not
only for violin, but also for piano. She first got the 4th place in the "XIII Andrea Postacchini
International Violin Competition" in Italy, May 22-27. A few weeks later, as one of the only
two Americans admitted to the competition, she received a top award with cash prize in the
"10th Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists" in Germany, August 6-13.
This is one of the most important contests of this type worldwide and this is only the second
time for an American to receive an award at this renowned event.
Her complete competition program recordings are available at the Video Page.
________________________________________________________________________________
About the FFMC state competition:
It's the FFMC (Florida Federation of Music Clubs) junior convention, but most people just
call it "the state competition". It happens once a year and usually on the first Friday and
Saturday of May. For the last four or five years, it is held in the University of North Florida,
Jacksonville. There are 1,300-1,600 students from all over the state come to compete every
year, it's a pretty big event.
At the end of each day, all participants enjoy a concert performed by the winners from last
year, then wait for the result announced in the award ceremony right after.
______________________________________________________________________________________________
It's a record when 7-year-old Gabrielle passed the audition of the "Senior Division" (most
are middle school or high school students) of the prestigious Florida Youth Orchestra (FYO).
In March of 2005, they performed at the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. and received
standing ovations. The recording of this performance is still available at The Kennedy Center
online broadcast archives. (Search by Keyword: Florida).
In the 18th and 19th season (2005-2007), Gabrielle became the associate concertmaster of
the FYO Principal Orchestra.
In March of 2006, they record the fourth professional recording CD "Winterlude" at the
University of Miami, but it's a first for Gabrielle.
In the 20th and 21th season (2007-2009), Gabrielle is the concertmaster of the FYO Principal
Orchestra.
In March of 2008, Gabrielle leads her orchestra performed in the legandary Carnegie Hall in
New York. It's a sold out concert and they received standing ovations.
______________________________________________________________________________________________
About the Florida Youth Orchestra (FYO):
FYO consists of five groups (based on qualification, not age) with 300 members from Dade,
Broward, and Palm Beach counties. The top group was called Senior Division when Gabrielle
joined and later it changed the name to FYO Principal Orchestra. The 2nd group from the
top is FYO Symphony, then Repertory Strings, Chamber Strings, and Alpha Strings.
The Principal Orchestra perform four or more concerts every year. It usually performs at
Bailey Concert Hall in November, Aventura Mall in February, Mizner Park in April, then the
final banquet concert at the Signature Grand.
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Gabrielle is 9 when she first became one of the Virtuosi Soloists for Coral Gables Chamber
Symphony. Together, they promote classical music by performing concerts for local school.
In September of 2005, when Gabrielle just turned 10, the conductor Bella Smith and her
friends created a brand new series of public television program for classical music called
"American Ideal", to differs from "American Idol' of the pop music. The program is
recorded live at the Granada Presbyterian Church, in front of hundreds of school students.
The pilot program of American Ideal was first aired around Christmas time and it was a big
success that it was aired more than 20 times the first year.
"American Ideal II" was recorded live in May 2006.
"American Ideal III" was recorded live in April 2007.
"American Ideal IV" was recorded live in April 2008.
All of performance videos are available on the home page, on the left panel.
________________________________________________________________________________
In the summer of 2004 and 2005, Gabrielle was accepted as one of the youngest violinists to
attend the Summer String Academy at Indiana University. It offers serious young string
players (mostly from 12-18 of age) an intensive and varied program at one of the world's
most renowned schools of music. We recommend this camp for all the serious music students
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
Gabrielle is now playing a beautiful violin hand-made by John Terry (Firenze, Italy).
(11/21/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of the Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra Concerto
Competition (High School Division) and will perform Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 1/23/2010.
(9/15/2009) - Gabrielle is one of the winners of the Young Composers Challenge which is
open to young adults living in the Southeastern United States. On top of a nice cash prize,
her winning composition "Canon and postlude for string trio" will be performed by the
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra at the Bob Carr Auditorium on November 1, 2009.
(8/20/2009) - Gabrielle gave a great performance and received Highly Commended Award
(Honorable Mention) in the 2nd Manchester International Piano Concerto Competition,
August 15 – 22, Manchester, England.
(620-6/27) - Gabrielle was in Haiti for mission works, including building schools.
(6/6/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of the Steinway Competition at Boca Raton.
(6/4/2009) - Last day of her middle school days. Gabrielle graduated from Silver Trail Middle
School with straight A (GPA 4.0) and will go to West Broward High School after summer.
(6/4/2009) - Gabrielle was very hornored to be invited to perform in National Federation of
Music Clubs Fifty-Fifth Biennial Convention in Orlando, Florida. She gave a 20 minutes of
program to this national convention for music teachers and professors.
(5/??/2009) - Gabrirelle received her first national award in composition competition.
(5/9/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of the FSMTA piano concerto comeptition.
(5/2/2009) - Gabrielle won the All Performance Award at the FFMC state competition.
(4/18/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of Walenstein Orchestra Music competition.
(2/27/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of the NFMC Southeastern Region (District of
Columbia/Washington DC, MD, VA, WV, KY, TN, MS, LA, AL, NC, SC, GA & FL)
composition competition and therefore a NFMC national finalist.
(2/1/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of the 5th Annual Ray Millette Young Artist Concerto
Competition of the Alhambra Orchestra. She will perform Mendelssohn violin concerto with
the Alhambra Orchestra on March 29.
(1/15/2009) - Gabrielle is the winner of MTNA Southern Division (KY, TN, MS, AL, VA, NC,
SC, GA & FL) composition competition and therefore a MTNA national finalist.
...
(5/3/2008) - Gabrielle is a big winner in FFMC state competition, she's
- the winner of Senior Piano Concerto (Mary Elizabeth Land Award)
- the winner of Senior Violin Concerto (Senior Violin Concerto Award)
- the winner of Piano Solo Musically Advanced I (Casey Lisk Memorial Award)
- the winner of Hymn Playing Class V (Nathan Wood Award)
- the 2nd place winner in All Performance Competition
- The winner of the Piano Duet Very Difficult II with Jay Tantivit
Biography and Information:
Gabrielle Chou was born (in Auguest 1995) and grew up in South Florida. None of her
parents are musicians, but they both love classical music, so Gabrielle has been listening to
classical music before she was born. She began violin at age 4, piano at 5, and composition
officially at 9. She is currently a violin student of Carol and David Cole (at Cooper City), a
piano student of Maria Gomez (at Plantation) and music composition student of Donald
Waxman (at Boca Raton).
She was home-schooled for several years, but not anymore. In Fall 2008, she went to public
school at the Silver Trail Middle School and she will go to the West Broward High School in
Fall 2009. So far, she enjoys her school life very much, but sometime struggles to find
enough time of all of her music practice and composition.
________________________________________________________________________________
Gabrielle has won more than 40 events in Florida state competitions (by FFMC and FSMTA)
and many others for violin, piano and composition since 2000. The major events include piano
solo, piano duet, piano concerto, violin solo, violin duet and violin concerto. In some
catagories,Gabrielle has won the top level and graduated, so she started to participate some
international competition (Italy and Germany) in the summer of 2006, when she was 10.
________________________________________________________________________________
In the summer of 2006, 10-year-old Gabrielle had her first international competitions – not
only for violin, but also for piano. She first got the 4th place in the "XIII Andrea Postacchini
International Violin Competition" in Italy, May 22-27. A few weeks later, as one of the only
two Americans admitted to the competition, she received a top award with cash prize in the
"10th Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists" in Germany, August 6-13.
This is one of the most important contests of this type worldwide and this is only the second
time for an American to receive an award at this renowned event.
Her complete competition program recordings are available at the Video Page.
________________________________________________________________________________
About the FFMC state competition:
It's the FFMC (Florida Federation of Music Clubs) junior convention, but most people just
call it "the state competition". It happens once a year and usually on the first Friday and
Saturday of May. For the last four or five years, it is held in the University of North Florida,
Jacksonville. There are 1,300-1,600 students from all over the state come to compete every
year, it's a pretty big event.
At the end of each day, all participants enjoy a concert performed by the winners from last
year, then wait for the result announced in the award ceremony right after.
______________________________________________________________________________________________
It's a record when 7-year-old Gabrielle passed the audition of the "Senior Division" (most
are middle school or high school students) of the prestigious Florida Youth Orchestra (FYO).
In March of 2005, they performed at the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. and received
standing ovations. The recording of this performance is still available at The Kennedy Center
online broadcast archives. (Search by Keyword: Florida).
In the 18th and 19th season (2005-2007), Gabrielle became the associate concertmaster of
the FYO Principal Orchestra.
In March of 2006, they record the fourth professional recording CD "Winterlude" at the
University of Miami, but it's a first for Gabrielle.
In the 20th and 21th season (2007-2009), Gabrielle is the concertmaster of the FYO Principal
Orchestra.
In March of 2008, Gabrielle leads her orchestra performed in the legandary Carnegie Hall in
New York. It's a sold out concert and they received standing ovations.
______________________________________________________________________________________________
About the Florida Youth Orchestra (FYO):
FYO consists of five groups (based on qualification, not age) with 300 members from Dade,
Broward, and Palm Beach counties. The top group was called Senior Division when Gabrielle
joined and later it changed the name to FYO Principal Orchestra. The 2nd group from the
top is FYO Symphony, then Repertory Strings, Chamber Strings, and Alpha Strings.
The Principal Orchestra perform four or more concerts every year. It usually performs at
Bailey Concert Hall in November, Aventura Mall in February, Mizner Park in April, then the
final banquet concert at the Signature Grand.
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Gabrielle is 9 when she first became one of the Virtuosi Soloists for Coral Gables Chamber
Symphony. Together, they promote classical music by performing concerts for local school.
In September of 2005, when Gabrielle just turned 10, the conductor Bella Smith and her
friends created a brand new series of public television program for classical music called
"American Ideal", to differs from "American Idol' of the pop music. The program is
recorded live at the Granada Presbyterian Church, in front of hundreds of school students.
The pilot program of American Ideal was first aired around Christmas time and it was a big
success that it was aired more than 20 times the first year.
"American Ideal II" was recorded live in May 2006.
"American Ideal III" was recorded live in April 2007.
"American Ideal IV" was recorded live in April 2008.
All of performance videos are available on the home page, on the left panel.
________________________________________________________________________________
In the summer of 2004 and 2005, Gabrielle was accepted as one of the youngest violinists to
attend the Summer String Academy at Indiana University. It offers serious young string
players (mostly from 12-18 of age) an intensive and varied program at one of the world's
most renowned schools of music. We recommend this camp for all the serious music students
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
Gabrielle is now playing a beautiful violin hand-made by John Terry (Firenze, Italy).
