1. Timothy Chooi is a Canadian violinist and University of Ottawa professor of Chinese-Indonesian-Malaysian ethnic background.
18 Facts About Timothy Chooi
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Timothy Chooi won the First Prize at the 2018 International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition and Second Prize at the 2019 Queen Elisabeth Competition.
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Timothy Chooi has won prizes at the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition, the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, and the Grand Prize at the 2010 Montreal ManuLife Competition.
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Timothy Chooi went on to complete high school in Pennsylvania and graduated with top honors in 2011.
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Timothy Chooi has one older brother, Nikki Timothy Chooi, a professional violinist who previously served as the concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
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Timothy Chooi received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music studying with Ida Kavafian and Pamela Frank.
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Timothy Chooi went on to receive his Master of Music and Artist Diploma degree from the Juilliard School, studying with Catherine Cho and his Professional Studies Diploma studying with Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy in Germany.
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Timothy Chooi has previously studied privately with Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec.
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Timothy Chooi started playing the violin at the age of three with the Suzuki method at the Victoria Conservatory of Music with Esther Tsang.
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Timothy Chooi made his orchestral debut at the age of seven, performing with his brother and the Victoria Symphony Orchestra.
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Timothy Chooi's performance was described as "the miracle violinist" by Montreal's harshest critic, Claude Gingras.
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In 2018, Timothy Chooi was the first violinist and the first Canadian and American to win the Prix Yves-Paternot from the Verbier Festival bringing him a cash prize of 25,000 Swiss Francs with numerous concert appearances across Europe including a concert at the Verbier Festival.
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Timothy Chooi was the first Canadian to win the top prize.
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Timothy Chooi's most recent artistic collaboration was a tour with Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Mutter Virtuosi where they performed across Europe's greatest concert halls such as the Musikverein Vienna, Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Berlin Philharmonie and many more.
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Timothy Chooi has shared the international stage with artists and conductors such as Gianandrea Noseda, Kent Nagano, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Pinchas Zukerman, Stephane Deneve, Lang Lang, Yuja Wang, Yoav Talmi, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Benjamin Zander.
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Timothy Chooi completed an Artist Diploma at the Juilliard School studying with Catherine Cho, and a Professional Studies diploma at the Kronberg Academy with Christian Tetzlaff.
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In 2021, at the age of 27, Timothy Chooi was made the Professor of Violin at University of Ottawa, one of the youngest professors in the institution's history.
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In 2010, Timothy Chooi was awarded the Grand Prize at the OSM Standard Life Competition.