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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. We hope you have enjoyed your visit. Please feel free to share this website with your friends who might be interested. Thank you! Gabrielle's parents - Richard & Grace Last update: 8-29-2011 |
| Gabrielle on TV click pictures below to play the videos |
| 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 16-year-old violinist, pianist, and composer Gabrielle Chou. Gabrielle was accepted to the Juilliard and Colburn Schools (pre-college), and she decided to continue her music study at the Colburn Academy starting fall of 2011. She was a concertmaster of the Florida Youth Orchestra between 2005-2011, and was a piano and violin soloists with Coral Gables Chamber Symphony, Boynton Regional Symphony Orchestra, Alhambra Orchestra, Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra, Mihail Jora Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau, and National Taiwan 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 both senior violin concerto and senior piano concerto competition at age 12. In 2009 and 2010, she won the All Performance Awards. 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 was a prize winner 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 weeks of elimination, she was selected as one of the eight finalists. She had a great time performing Chopin Concerto No. 2 with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall. In 2009, she was a prize winner in the 2nd Manchester International Piano Concerto Competition, Manchester, England. In 2011, she first received a Bronze medal in the 5th Bösendorfer and Schimmel USASU International Piano Competition. A few days later, she won another prize in the 2011 Blount-Slawson Young Artists Competition. She has played for Lang Lang, Murray Perahia, Susan Starr, Elmar Oliviera, Robert McDonald, Yoheved (Veda) Kaplinsky, Shirley Givens, Arnold Steinhardt and many other prominent musicians. In the summer of 2010, Gabrielle attended the Aspen Music Festival and School where she enjoyed the weekly lesson with great pianist and teacher John O'conor. She also studied violin with Paul Kantor and Cornelia Heard. In the summer of 2011, Gabrielle received TWO years of orchestra fellowship to continue her study at Aspen Music Festeival and School. She studied with the master violin teacher Robert Lipsett (of the Colburn School) and have a chance to study with John O'Conor again. What a joy! |
| WLRN Public Television "American Ideal IV" 4-25-2008 |
| Bach's Chaconne from Partita No.2 in D minor (BWV 1004) |
| Presents her String Trio at Lynn University New Music Festival |
| Prokofiev Piano Sonata No.3 Performance in Competition 2011 |
| Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Ars Flores Symphony Orch. |
| True music lies between the notes. ~ Mozart |
| (3-23-2008) Gabrielle at Carnegie Hall - shaking hands with the maestro Thomas Sleeper |
| Beethoven Waldstein Sonata, Performance in Competition 2011 |
| Gabrielle with her medal from the 5th Bösendorfer and Schimmel International Piano Competitions After the Winners’ Recital and Awards Ceremony, Ikeda Theater, Mesa Art Center, Phoenix, Arizona. Saturday, January 15, 2011 |
| 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 and some TV news are available in the left panel. 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 on pictures below to watch them. |
| Gabrielle is one of the Chopin Foundation 2011-2012 Scholarship Recipients |
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