Kathy Chow
Kathy is the first prize winner of the 2018 Birmingham International Piano Competition and the Phillip Crawshaw Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Musician from Overseas at the 2019 Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition in London. She was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Jaques Samuel Intercollegiate Piano Competition and has been a recipient of the Tait Trust Awards.
As a soloist Kathy has performed in Australia, USA, China, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom, appearing at Barbican Hall, London, St James Piccadilly, St Mary’s Perivale Town Hall of Birmingham, Melbourne Recital Centre, ABC Iwaki Auditorium, South Melbourne Town Hall, State Library of Victoria, Government Ballroom House of Western Australia amongst others.
Kathy is the first prize winner of the 2018 Birmingham International Piano Competition and the Phillip Crawshaw Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Musician from Overseas at the 2019 Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition in London. She was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Jaques Samuel Intercollegiate Piano Competition and has been a recipient of the Tait Trust Awards.
As a chamber and collaborative pianist, Kathy has performed with the Armorel Piano Trio at concert venues including St Johns Waterloo, Milton Court Concert Hall, St Mary’s Perivale, and St Barnabas Church. Upon moving to Scotland, she regularly collaborates with instrumentalists and singers for performances, auditions and exams across Scotland and the UK.
Kathy is extremely passionate about music education and has worked with organisations including the National Youth Choir of Scotland in Youth Music Initiative projects. She is a Lecturer in Piano at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Junior Conservatoire, and holds teaching, coaching & accompaniment posts at the Music School of Douglas Academy and Eskine Stewart’s Melville Schools. Kathy graduated with distinction in a Master of Music Performance and Artist Diploma from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in the class of Martin Roscoe.