Chia Chou is a Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

ese pianist, and a naturalised Canadian

Canada

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 citizen. He settled in Germany in the 1980s.

In 1980-81 he won the Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin and the second edition of the Sydney Competition

Sydney International Piano Competition

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; a wide international concert career ensued. In 1983 he became the first Chinese artist living abroad to perform in China since the Cultural Revolution

Cultural Revolution

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Chou is a member of the Parnassus Trio (1990- ), and a professor in Chamber Music at the Kunstuniversität Graz (2004- ).