Laureate
Canadian pianist Winston Choi is Laureate of the 2003 Honens International Piano Competition. Since his win at Honens, Choi has performed at some of the world’s most important concert venues, including Canada’s National Arts Centre and Glenn Gould Studio, New York’s Merkin Recital Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Paris’ Salle Cortot. Choi is an inquisitive performer whose fresh approach to standard repertoire, and masterful understanding, performance and commitment to works by living composers, make him one of today’s most dynamic young concert artists. He has premiered and commissioned over 100 works by young composers as well as established masters and has collaborated with composers William Bolcom, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough, Bright Sheng and John Zorn. BBC Music Magazine calls his recording of the complete piano works of Elliott Carter “… sheer élan and pianistic devilment.” Choi is Assistant Professor and Head of Piano at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts.