News
19 January 2023
Review: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
"The fireworks of the quick movements flew from his strings with irascible zest..." Timothy Chooi recently made his United Kingdom performing Bruch's Scottish Fantasy with Domingo Hindoyan with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Liverpool and at the Sage at the Newcastle Upon Tyne. This performance was live recorded and is being streamed on Medici.tv and BBC Radio 3.
2 December 2022
Review: Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
"This performance so impressed the audience that they leapt to their feet in ovation after just the first movement!"
Tim Tuller, classical music reviewer, shared his experiences from this weekend’s performances of “Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto" featuring the shining talents of guest conductor Nathan Aspinall and soloist Timothy Chooi.
4 November 2022
Review: The two faces of Beethoven (DSO Berlin, Linz, Austria)
Timothy Chooi... the Canadian-American violinist focused on the lyrical side of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and was able to demonstrate his brilliant technique. In interaction with the DSO Berlin, which used significantly more vibrato here and sounded almost a little slowed down, a completely different Beethoven emerged than after the break with his 3rd symphony.
30 October 2022
Tour with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
After an incredible and successful debut with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in June 2022, he was immediately reinvited to go on tour under the baton of Jukka Pekka Saraste. This tour goes to Liechenstein, Innsbruck and Linz from Oct 31-Nov 3.
25 May 2022
New Strad from Nippon Music Foundation, engagements in Europe, US, and Canada this summer 2022 for violinist Timothy Chooi
New York, NY - Recipient of a 2022 Norman Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant at Juilliard's commencement this past Friday, violinist Timothy Chooi kicks off his summer season with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin playing the Sibelius Violin Concerto. He then travels to receive his "new" Stradivarius loaned to him by the Nippon Music Foundation. Loaned to Chooi in 2021, he was unable to collect the instrument because of Covid until now. The summer season offers numerous opportunities to hear him perform on the renowned instrument. In addition to Germany, engagements take him to Florida and Massachusetts in the US, Canada, Austria and Switzerland.
25 February 2022
A promise for the future: Timothy Chooi (Ein Versprechen für die Zukunft: Timothy Chooi)
Press Review from "Tiroler Tageszeitung" A promise for the future: Timothy Chooi Flattery, sighs and sobs, there were also those with Antonín Dvorák's Romance for violin and orchestra in F minor, Op. 11. The heartbreaker, that is, the soloist of the evening was Canadian-born Timothy Chooi. The 28-year-old is able to use the colors of his Windsor-Weinstein Stradivarius in a varied and nuanced way, so that the listener gets the impression of convincing interpretative immediacy. There is someone who makes music out of his own deep empathy for music, full of sensitivity in the discreet, full of luminosity and esprit, someone who succeeds in making the music speak.
16 January 2022
Timothy Chooi to perform his New York City debut with the Juilliard Orchestra
The Focus festival closes on January 28 with a concert in Alice Tully Hall by the Juilliard Orchestra, led by guest conductor Mei-Ann Chen. The program includes Joplin’s Overture to Treemonisha; Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with violinist Timothy Chooi as soloist, and Ives’ Symphony No. 2.