Brisbane City Hall Organ Recital - Jennifer Chou

Jennifer Chou made her Melbourne Town Hall debut as soloist with the Orchestra Victoria soon after she settled in Australia in 2004. She has performed as a soloist across the country in major town halls and Cathedrals including Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Newcastle, and Sydney. Overseas, Jennifer has appeared as soloist in Europe including venues such as the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and the Westminster Abbey in London, elsewhere such as the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore, Cathedrals in New Zealand; and in the 41st and 49th International Bamboo Organ Festival in the Philippines. At present, she is Associate Organist at the Scots Church Melbourne where she plays the 4 manual Rieger organ on most Sundays. Jennifer is a sought after organ teacher, she had taught the organ for the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. Since 2015, she teaches the organ at Melbourne High School and Camberwell Grammar School. She also has taught masterclasses in Hong Kong, Singapore and within Australia, and has adjudicated for the New Zealand Organ Competition, the Ringwood Eisteddfod organ section in Melbourne, and the American Guild of Organists Hong Kong Chapter (video round). Born in Hong Kong, Jennifer graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong majoring in the organ. She studied the organ with Wolfgang Rübsam at Northwestern University at which she obtained a Master of Music degree and the Certificate of Performance with Honour. She furthered her studies at the Conservatoire National de Région de Rueil-Malmaison in Paris in the organ class of Susan Landale and obtained the Prix de Virtuosité à l'unanimité avec les félicitations du jury. Following that, she specialised in French Classical and North German repertoire with Michel Bouvard and Jan Willem Jansen at the Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de Musique et Danse in Toulouse in Cycle de Perfectionnement. Her graduation concert awarded her the Premier Prix d'Orgue à l'unanimité in the frame of the Toulouse les Orgues International Festival. She won “Mention Speciale” in the Biarritz International Organ Competition (France).