“...Chow evokes in a slow cascade serving the music particularly well with her crystalline sense of meditation and silence...she has a particular affinity with suggestive spaces.” - Fringe Review, June 2019
Hailed as the “Talented Pianist” (Eastern Daily Press, 2017), Constance Chow (née Leung) makes frequent appearances on musical stages across the UK and mainland Europe, as well as in Hong Kong. Constance is equally at home as a soloist and as a chamber pianist. Her solo as well as duo recitals in Brighton have both been reviewed on Fringe Review as “Highly Recommended Shows” in 2019. Recent highlights include a performance of Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto with the University of Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and a collaboration with world-renowned pianist Noriko Ogawa in a piano duet concert.
Her interest in new music has led her to perform the London premiere of Grace Williams’ Sonata for Violin and Piano with Siân Philipps at Blackheath Halls in 2018. The same year sees the forming of Mandorla Duo with flautist Hannah Cresswell. The duo has given many well-received concerts, including recently the world premiere of Paul Burnell’s Three Pieces at Southwell Music Festival. Other notable concerts include a Fringe concert with recorder player Jennifer Tsang at Open Recorder Days Amsterdam in 2017, and a duo recital with viola player Katie Le Feuvre at the first Isle Joyeuse Music Festival in Jersey in 2019. Constance has performed for the British Military Services, as well as the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office at a number of countries including Russia, France, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Ireland and the UK.
Venues she has appeared at include the Milton Court Concert Hall, Blackheath Halls, Bishopsgate Institute, Victoria & Albert Museum, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Blue Note at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, St Edmundsbury Cathedral, The Church of St. Peter Mancroft, St. Bride's Church Fleet Street, The Shaw Library at the London School of Economics, St. Clement Danes Church, St Lawrence Jewry, St Martin’s Church Dorking, St Nicholas Church Brighton, Bury Parish Church, Bromley Parish Church, Emmanuel United Reformed Church Cambridge, among others. She is due to make her debut at Danny House in Sussex and St Mary the Virgin Aylesbury in 2020, and at Kingston Chamber Concerts in 2021.
Constance is a Master graduate of Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied principally with Paul Roberts. Prior to that, she had received a Bachelor of Music (Honours) from King’s College London, when she also studied piano performance with Tessa Nicholson at the Royal Academy of Music. She was also trained as a piano teacher at the Academy and qualified with LRAM in Piano Teaching. Constance has received a full scholarship to attend Music at Albignac Piano Summer School in 2015. Whilst studying at King’s, she was generously supported by the Hong Kong Scholarship Fund. She was also a contralto choral scholar at the renowned college chapel choir, with which she has performed both as a pianist and as a singer in the UK and abroad. During her time at Guildhall and at King’s, she also received solo and chamber coaching and masterclasses from a range of musicians, including David Dolan, Carole Presland, Charles Owen, Caroline Palmer, Noriko Ogawa, Philip Jenkins, Robert Levin, Joan Havil, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Pascal Nemirovski, Daniel Tong, Ralph De Souza, Evan Rothstein, the Chilingirian Quartet and the Endellion Quartet.
As an advocate for social justice and care for the vulnerable in the society, Constance regularly gives solo and duo concerts with Music in Hospitals and Care (UK), sharing the joy of live music with people in care facilities. She has organised and participated in various charity concerts in the past, including for children refugees in Hong Kong, victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in London, and the Chinese Association for Cancer Care in London. Most recently, Constance curated and performed with three other musicians the “Sleeping Bag Concert”, appealing for sleeping bag and monetary donations to Kingston Churches Action for Homelessness for the use of their winter night shelter. Constance is currently based in London and is highly demanded as a solo and chamber pianist, accompanist, and piano teacher. More information about Constance could be found on her website www.constancechow.com.