Janey Choi, violin + curator Canadian violinist, Janey Choi gave her Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1997 as a winner of the Artists International Auditions and continues an active career performing on chamber and recital series, and with such groups as the New York City Ballet, Harrisburg Symphony, and the Key West Symphony. The recipient of numerous awards including the Ontario Arts Council's Chalmers Performing Arts Training Grant and First Prize in the Canadian Music Competition, she has participated in such festivals as Mostly Mozart, 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, 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. Her other interests have taken her to the visual arts world, developing and presenting an annual “Music + Art” show commissioning paintings based on chamber works. She has recorded and appeared with such mainstream performers as Bono (U2) and Quincy Jones, Enya, Elton John, Adele, Sarah McLachlan, Lisa Loeb, Lenny Kravitz, Kanye West, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, on the Grammys, MTV, Saturday Night Live, The Today Show, at Live 8, 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 BM and MM degrees from The Juilliard School where her major teachers were Joseph Fuchs and Joel Smirnoff. In addition to being on faculty at Binghamton University, she is a Teaching Artist for the New York Philharmonic, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Bloomingdale School of Music in New York City. In her free time, she enjoys marathon training, swimming, playing soccer and ice hockey.