Kathy Chow is an award-winning Australian pianist based in Scotland. She made her debut piano recital at age fourteen at the Callaway Music Auditorium, raising funds for the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Western Australia. 

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As a soloist Kathy has performed in Australia, USA, China, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom, appearing at Barbican Hall, St James Piccadilly, St Mary’s Perivale, Birmingham Town Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Hamer Hall, South Melbourne Town Hall, State Library of Victoria, Government Ballroom House of Western Australia. She has appeared at major festivals such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Ribble Valley International Piano Festival, FIMTE International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music, ANAM Set Festival & the International Holland Music Sessions. 

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​Kathy is the first prize winner of the 2018 Birmingham International Piano Competition and the Phillip Crawshaw Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Musician from Overseas at the 2019 Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition in London. She was a semifinalist in the 2019 Jaques Samuel Intercollegiate Piano Competition, and has been a recipient of the 2019 Tait Trust Awards, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music’s Elizabeth McComas Piano Scholarship and the University of Melbourne’s Sir Arthur Sims Travelling Scholarship. She has also won prizes and been a finalist in the Glass Sellers Beethoven Prize, Melbourne Recital Centre Great Romantics Competition, Australian Youth Classical Competition, 3MBS Young Performer of the Year Award, Australian National Piano Award, and the John Allison Henderson Piano Scholarship, and has participated in masterclasses with internationally renowned artists including Peter Frankl, Bernd Geotzke, Aquiles delle Vigne, Victor Rosenbaum, Joanna MacGregor, Steven Osborne and Ralf Gothoni.

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Since relocating to Scotland her focus has been on chamber music, with Scottish violist Marsailidh Groat as part of the Cianalas Duo. The duo is passionate about using music as a tool for connection, education, and wellbeing. Their name, Cianalas, is a Scottish Gaelic word meaning ‘a deep-seated sense of belonging to the place where your roots lie’, and the duo aims to create a feeling of groundedness, community and belonging through their projects.

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Kathy is passionate about music education and has worked with Music Traveler, National Youth Choir of Scotland & Youth Music Initiative, and Reel Kids Music Club. She is currently a Lecturer in Piano at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Junior Conservatoire, and holds posts at the Music School of Douglas Academy and Eskine Stewart's Melville Schools.

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Kathy is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where she obtained an MMus Concert Recital Diploma (Premier Prix) and Artist Diploma on full scholarship. Her teachers have been Martin Roscoe, Glenn Riddle & Yoon Sen Lee.