NAC/CBC 2004 Debut Series features Honens International Piano Competition prize-winner Winston Choi on March 15
March 04, 2004 -
Ottawa, Canada -- Pianist Winston Choi, winner of France’s 2002 Concours International de Piano 20e siècle d’Orléans, and Second Laureate of the 2003 Honens International Piano Competition, will perform in recital on the National Arts Centre and CBC Radio Two Debut Series on Monday, March 15 at 12:00 noon in the NAC Studio. Choi will perform Poulenc’s Nocturnes, Chopin’s Polonaise-fantaisie, and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. This champion of Canadian music will also perform Touch by National Arts Centre Award Composer Alexina Louie.
These hour-long recitals, co-presented by the NAC and CBC Radio Two, give young Canadian musicians the opportunity to perform at the National Arts Centre and to have their recitals recorded and broadcast nationally on CBC Radio Two. Admission is $2.00 with all proceeds going to the NAC Orchestra Bursary Trust Fund. Additional donations to the Fund are greatly appreciated.
Toronto pianist Winston Choi has already made his CD debut, having recorded the complete works of Elliott Carter (Empreinte Digitale, France). He also has a soon-to-be-released recording entitled 1980 as part of Italian label QuadroFrame’s Yearbooks of the 20th Century piano series.
Choi has performed in recital and with orchestras in many North American cities – Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York (Merkin and Weill Recital Halls), Miami, Montreal, Portland, Seattle and Toronto among them – and has toured Argentina, Brunei, China, France, Hungary, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Taiwan. A serious chamber musician and collaborative pianist, he also performs in a duo with violinist Minghuan Xu.
He is a core member of Brave New Works, a contemporary music group committed to premiering and commissioning the works of young composers, and has collaborated closely with some of today’s most innovative established composers. He gave the North American premiere of Boulez’s 2001 version of Incises and the South American premiere of Berio’s 2001 Sonata for Piano.
Choi earned his Performer’s Certificate, and Master and Bachelor Degrees at Indiana University, studying with Menahem Pressler. At present, he is a doctoral student at Northwestern University, where he studies with Ursula Oppens
For more information please contact:
Jane Morris, Communications Officer,
National Arts Centre Orchestra
(613) 947-7000, ext. 335
jmorris@nac-cna.ca
Jill LaForty, CBC Radio
(613) 562-8571
lafortyj@ottawa.cbc.ca
