Chia Chou
Taiwanese pianist (born 1961)
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Chia Chou (born 1960) is a Taiwanese-born[1][2] Canadian pianist. He settled in Germany in the 1980s.
He had his first public performance at age 7.[1][2] In 1980 and 1981, he won the Mendelssohn Competition[1][2][3] in Berlin and the second edition of the Sydney Competition;[1][4][2][3] a wide international concert career ensued. In 1983, he became the first artist with Chinese ancestry living abroad to perform in China since the Cultural Revolution.[3]
Chou is a member of the Parnassus Trio since 1990[1][2] and a professor in Chamber Music at the Kunstuniversität Graz since 2004.[1][5][3]
