Pianist Katherine Chi has performed throughout Europe and North America to great acclaim, including her 2003 New York recital debut, about which The New York Times wrote, “Ms Chi displayed a keen musical intelligence and a powerful arsenal of technique.” She has established herself as one of Canada’s fastest rising stars of classical music.

Ms. Chi makes her recital debut at Lincoln Centre this season and she will appear with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Victoria Symphony Orchestra, and National Arts Center Orchestra, where she will also be in residence. Ms. Chi is the artistic director and pianist in a series of concerts featuring Stockhausen’s Mantra.

Chi first studied at The Curtis Institute of Music and continued her studies with Russell Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where she received her Master's degree and Graduate and Artist Diplomas. She later studied for two years at the International Piano Foundation in Como, Italy, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. Other teachers include Seymour Lipkin, Galina Eguirazarova, and Wassily Lobanov. Ms. Chi was a prizewinner at the 1998 Busoni International Piano Competition and was the first Canadian and first woman to win Canada’s Honens International Piano Competition. Her debut recording, of works by Beethoven and Rachmaninov, was released in 2003 on Canada’s Arktos label. At the present time she is a resident in Boston where she teaches and pursues her Doctorate at the New England Conservatory of Music.