TIMOTHY CHOOI

Canadian violinist Timothy Chooi’s recent honours include Second Prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 2019, and First Prize at Germany’s 2018 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition. 2018 was also the year he won the Verbier Festival’s Prix Yves Paternot for the Academy’s most promising and accomplished musician, leading to his solo debut here this year. Other 2021/22 highlights include a return to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, a Concertgebouw debut with Phion orchestra, and a debut with the DSO Berlin. Chooi is on the Juilliard’s Artist Diploma program studying with Catherine Cho, and is a Professional Studies candidate at the Kronberg Academy with Christian Tetzlaff. He’s also a Professor of Violin at the University of Ottawa. He performs on the 1717 Windsor-Weinstein Stradivarius on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts.