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Gabrielle Chou is a New York-based pianist and violinist with a uniquely exciting and multifaceted career on both instruments. In addition to performing nationally and internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician, Gabrielle also teaches both her instruments and all musical subjects, coaches chamber music and orchestra, premieres and champions new music, collaborates on multidisciplinary works, and develops community engagement initiatives. Her education includes the Colburn Music Academy, The Juilliard School, and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she received her D.M.A. writing her dissertation on play elements and game mechanics in music. Her teachers include Jerome Lowenthal and Richard Goode on piano, Lewis Kaplan on violin, and Emanuel Ax, Timothy Eddy, Joseph Kalichstein, Matti Raekallio, and Sylvia Rosenberg for chamber music.
Gabrielle performs and teaches around the country and internationally, including appearances as both piano and violin soloist with orchestras in the US, Europe, and Asia. Recent highlights include being a 2026-27 National Arts Club Fellow, winning the Center for Musical Excellence’s International Performing Arts Grant, music directing and performing in the 2025 and 2026 YoungArts Miami Gala, performing with trio Longleash at The Kennedy Center, and producing and premiering a concert of improvised and game-based pieces with her ensemble Away From Keyboard. While Gabrielle plays the breadth of repertoire for either instrument, she is particularly passionate about chamber and contemporary music and enjoys all forms of collaboration with musicians of any genre and artists of any medium. She has premiered piano, violin, chamber, and orchestral works at Juilliard, the Yale School of Music, National Sawdust, the Avaloch Music Institute, Klavierhaus, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Currently Gabrielle serves as faculty at Juilliard, teaching piano, chamber music, and keyboard skills in the Preparatory and Extension Divisions; she is also a chamber music coach at the New York Youth Symphony, orchestra and chamber music coach at Riverdale Country School, and Teaching Artist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. During summers she has served on the faculty of the Sarasota Music Festival, Sphinx Performance Academy, pianoSonoma, and The Artists Program at Suzuki on the Island; she has also given workshops at the Manhattan School of Music, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, and the New York Youth Symphony’s Composition Program. She is a founding member of the contemporary chamber collective Away From Keyboard and plays with numerous ensembles and initiatives, including The Concert Truck, PinkNoise, Soundbox Ventures, Metropolis Ensemble, Nu Deco Ensemble, the Center for Musical Excellence, and Concerts for Compassion. In her free time Gabrielle enjoys frequenting art museums and aquariums, playing board and video games, birding, and reading science fiction.
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