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Lucille Chung | Born in Montréal, Quebec,
this 34-year old has been heralded as an impassioned and refined
concert pianist.
She made her debut with the Montréal
Symphony Orchestra at the age of 10, and was invited to be a
featured soloist during its Asian Tour in 1989. Since then, she
has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras as well as several
international ensembles including the Moscow Virtuosi and the
Philadelphia Orchestra. She has given recitals at the Kennedy
Center in Washington, D.C., New York's Weill Hall at Carnegie
Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Ford Centre for
the Performing Arts in Toronto.
In 1998, Ms. Chung was the
winner of numerous competitions in Italy including the 19th International
Pescara Competition, the VI Concorso Internazionale "Riviera
del Conero" and Concorso Internazionale Pinerolo Citta della
Cavalleria. In 1999, she was awarded the prestigious Virginia
Parker Prize by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Lucille Chung graduated from
the Curtis Institute of Music and the Julliard School where she
worked under Seymour Lipkin. Presently, she is studying at the
Accademia Pianistica di Imola with Giovanni Valentini.
Ms. Chung is fluent in French,
English, Korean, Italian, German, and Russian.
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