Gabrielle Chou is a New York-based pianist and violinist seeking to defy genres and break barriers in music education and performance tradition. On both instruments she performs solo, chamber music, and in large ensembles, teaches and lectures, coaches chamber music, improvises, collaborates with composers and dancers, and is active in community engagement and activism. Gabrielle plays everything and is particularly passionate about chamber music, contemporary music, and collaborating with composers and artists. She is a founding member of the contemporary chamber collective Away From Keyboard and plays with Metropolis Ensemble, Nu Deco Ensemble, Protestra, Sound Off: Music for Bail, After Arts Featured Artists, the Center for Musical Excellence, and Concerts for Compassion.
Gabrielle’s education includes the Colburn Music Academy, The Juilliard School (BM ’17, MM ’18), and the City University of New York’s Graduate Center (DMA ’23), where she wrote her dissertation on play structures and game mechanics in music. Her teachers include Jerome Lowenthal and Richard Goode on piano, Lewis Kaplan on violin, and Emanuel Ax, Sylvia Rosenberg, and Timothy Eddy for chamber music. Gabrielle is the winner of the Center for Musical Excellence’s 2018 International Performing Arts Grant and has been a piano and violin soloist with orchestras and performed extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. In addition, she is an avid proponent of new music and contemporary collaborations and has premiered new works at Juilliard, the Yale School of Music, National Sawdust, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Recent residencies include Associate Piano Faculty Artist at the Sarasota Music Festival, Artist in Residence at pianoSonoma, and Fellowship Artist in violin at Mostly Modern | The Netherlands.
Currently in New York Gabrielle serves as Assistant Professor of Music at Baruch College, chamber music coach at the New York Youth Symphony, and staff pianist at The Juilliard School. In her free time she enjoys frequenting art museums and aquariums, playing board and video games, birding, and reading science fiction.