Janey Choi, violin Canadian-born violinist Janey Choi gave her Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1997 as a winner of the Artists International Auditions. Highlights of the past year have included performances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and with hip-hop artist Kanye West at Live 8, MTV, and Saturday Night Live. Ms. Choi is the recipient of numerous awards including the Ontario Arts Council's Chalmers Performing Arts Training Grant and First Prize in the National Finals of the Canadian Music Competition. She has participated in such festivals as Juilliard's Focus Festival (celebrating contemporary music), Norfolk, Taos, the Spoleto Festivals in the United States and Italy, Festival Musical de Santo Domingo, the Santa Fe Opera and the Sarasota Opera. An avid collaborator, she appeared on the only European Lilith Fair Tour Concert in London, England, performing with Lisa Loeb and Sarah McLachlan. In addition, she has performed numerous times with the Parsons Dance Company, most notably at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at the New Victory Theater in Times Square. She is currently the Music Director of Thomas/Ortiz Dance, a collaboration recognized by the American Music Center with a Live Music for Dance Grant. Ms. Choi attained her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Rutgers University, studying with Arnold Steinhardt as the recipient of the Graduate Fellowship Award. She holds both bachelor and masters degrees from The Juilliard School where her major teachers were Joseph Fuchs and Joel Smirnoff. She is also a Teaching Artist for the New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center Institute, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Bloomingdale School of Music.