Jennifer Chou

Concert Organist, solo recitals and concerts by arrangement.
Organ and Trombone Duo – concerts and reception music.
Teach piano, pipe organ, and harpsichord.
Teach general music theory and aural training.
Piano accompanist for exams and concerts.

Jennifer Chou graudated in music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong . She holds a Master of Music degree in organ performance and Performance Certificate with Honours from Northwestern University (USA) where her teacher was Wolfgang Ruebsam. She went to France to further her studies in organ performance and obtained the prix d’excellence and prix de virtuosite unanimously in the organ class of Susan Landale at the Conservatoire National de Region de Rueil-Malmaison in Paris. She specialised her studies in French Baroque and North German repertoire with Michel Bouvard and Jan Willem Jansen at the Centre d’ Etudes Superieures de Musique et Danse in Toulouse and obtained the Premier Prix a l’unanimite.
She competed in international competitions and won special mention in the Biarritz international organ competition in France.

She has studied the harpsichord with Joyce Lindorf, Wolfgang Ruebsam, Jan Willem Jansen, and harpsichord and fortepiano with Yasuko Bouvard-Umaya.

As a piano player, she holds ATCL in piano performance and had studied piano accompaniment at Northwestern University, she is very experienced in accompanying choirs. She has taught the piano for over 20 years.

She is Director of Music at St John’s Camberwell, and an organ instructor at the Australian Catholic University. As a concert organist, she gives concerts both in Australia and overseas. She has given solo recitals in venues such as Notre-Dame de Paris, Westminster Abbey, Adelaide Town Hall, Sydney University, Brisbane Cathedral, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, St Gilles Edinburg Cathedral, and many other places. She also performs regular with Joseph Yu as a trombone and organ duo. The duo toured in England and Italy in 2007 and their performances received high acclaims. In 2008, she will perform the complete Livre du Saint-Sacrement by Olivier Messiaen in Adelaide and she will be touring New Zealand to give organ concerts.