Janey Choi, violin + curator Canadian-born violinist, Janey Choi gave her Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1997 as a winner of the Artists International Auditions and continues an active performing career as a recitalist, chamber, and orchestral musician throughout the country and abroad. 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, Norfolk, Taos, the Spoleto Festivals in the U.S. and Italy, Festival Musical de Santo Domingo, the Santa Fe Opera and the Sarasota Opera. An avid inter-arts and cross-genre collaborator, she is the Music Director of Thomas/Ortiz Dance, a partnership recognized by the American Music Center with a Live Music for Dance Grant, and has performed numerous times with the Parsons Dance Co., most notably at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at the New Victory Theater in Times Square. She has recorded and appeared with such mainstream performers as Bono and Quincy Jones, Enya, Elton John, Sarah McLachlan, Lisa Loeb, Kanye West, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, on MTV, Saturday Night Live, at Live 8 Philadelphia, Radio City Music Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London, England. Dr. 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 a Teaching Artist for the New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center Institute, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is a Professor of Violin at Binghamton University. She has been on faculty at the Bloomingdale School of Music since 2003.