The Chameleons

Artistic Director

Guest Artists

• Meng-Chun Chi, viola
• Katherine Chi, piano
• Charles Dimmick, violin
• Ronald Feldman, cello
• Douglas Quint, bassoon
• Meredeth Rouse, oboe
• Hans Spencer, narrator and educator
• Katherine Winterstein, violin

Katherine Chi

piano

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 raved "Ms. Chi displayed a keen musical intelligence and a powerful arsenal of technique." Her debut last season with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra also established her as one of Canada’s fastest rising stars of classical music. "...the most sensational but, better, the most unfailingly cogent and compelling Prokofiev's Third I have heard in years" said The Globe and Mail.

Ms. Chi has recently performed recitals for Toronto's prestigious Women's Musical Club, with cellist Laurence Lesser in Boston where she premiered a new Gunther Schuller composition, and at the San Diego Museum of Art for repeat performances. She also gave memorable recital debuts in Hamburg, Hanover, Milan, Rome and Salzburg. She has appeared with the CBC Radio Orchestra in Vancouver, Canada’s National Arts Centre, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen and the Alabama, Calgary, Colorado, Edmonton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Manitoba Chamber and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestras, and at a festivals including Aldeburgh, Banff, Canada’s Festival of the Sound, Marlboro, Osnabrück Kammermusik, Germany's Ruhr, Santander Summer Music, and Festival Vancouver.

2004 - 2005 engagements included a return appearance at Festival Vancouver, recitals in Milan and Minneapolis, as well as concertos with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony and the Toronto Sinfonia.

Ms. Chi gave her debut recital at age nine. A year later she was accepted to The Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Seymour Lipkin. She continued studies with Russell Sherman 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. She 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. She is currently living in Boston where she teaches and is pursuing her Doctorate at the New England Conservatory.

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