Jenny Hsin-Chuan Chou
Accompanist

Jenny Hsin-Chuan Chou, in her native home of Taipei, Taiwan, began piano lessons at the age of 6 and gave her first public performance at the age of 10. Ms. Chou earned the Bachelor of Arts in piano performance from National Taiwan Normal University. Then she came to Boston University to study piano with Maria Clodes-Jaguarible, harpsichord and fortepiano with Mark Kroll, Lola Odiaga, and Lucy Hallman Russell, and accompaniment with Allen Rogers. After completing the Master of Music degree with high honors in both piano performance and harpsichord performance, she continued her study and earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in harpsichord performance from Boston University.

As to her experience, Ms. Chou was a Dean's Scholar at Boston University from 1993 to 1995. She has twice been the finalist in the Aaron and Anne Richmond Competition. And she has been invited respectively to perform in Festival Francois Couperin (1990), Festival of J.S. Bach (1993), the Early Music Series of Boston University (1994), the Festival Harpsichord at Goethe-Institut Boston (1996), as well as with the Greater Boston Chinese Choral Society (1994) and the American Chinese Art Society (2004). In addition, she was once the harpsichordist of Boston University Baroque Orchestra, the accompanist for the Choral Union of Boston University, a teaching assistant for the Historical Performance Department of Boston University, and the accompanist for the Emmanuel College Chorus, the Stage Program of Emerson College, and the Opera New England Company. Furthermore, she worked consecutively for the Boston Music Education Collaborative from 1998 to 1999, and for Harvard University as the chamber music coach at Mather House from 1999 to 2002.

At present, Ms. Chou is employed as the pianist for the Music Department of Weston Middle School and Weston High School in Massachusetts. She has also been the accompanist for In Choro Novo since 1994, and a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus since 2001. Moreover, presently, Ms. Chou has been serving with her gift of music as the accompanist and co-conductor for the choir of Chinese Bible Church of Greater Boston at Lexington, Massachusetts.