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Pianist Alvin Chow has been presented as a recitalist in such cities as Hong Kong, Shanghai, Vienna, Montreal, Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles, and as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Pan-Asia Symphony in Hong Kong, Shanghai Philharmonic, and the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg, among others. In addition, he often performs 4-hand recitals with his wife, Angela Cheng, and his twin brother, Alan. He has taught and performed at numerous summer festivals, including the Shanghai Piano Festival, Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, Southeastern Piano Festival, Adamant Music School, Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, and the Lake Como Summer Piano School in Italy. Mr. Chow graduated Co-Valedictorian at the University of Maryland, where he was a student of Nelita True. As a student of Sasha Gorodnitzki at the Juilliard School he was awarded the Victor Herbert Prize, and held the Joseph Battista Memorial Scholarship at Indiana University as a student of Menahem Pressler. Since 1999, he has taught at the Oberlin Conservatory, where he currently serves as Chair of the Piano Department. From 2011-14 he was the Ruth Strickland Gardner Professor of Music, and was awardedthe Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016.