| Vincent
Chi-Kwan Cheung, piano, has been an active chamber
music
player in the Boston area. He has been a member of the MIT
Chamber
Music Society (CMS),
performing regularly for the MIT community under
the guidance of David
Deveau, Marcus
Thompson, and John
Harbison. Collaborating with Catherine McCurry, violin, Juliet
Gopinath, viola, Mea
Cook,
cello, and others, he has performed seven major chamber works
of Johannes Brahms for CMS, culminating into a concert in 2005
featuring all of Brahms’ Piano Quartets. He has also appeared in
concerts with Bonnie
L. Cochran, flute, of the Amaryllis
Chamber
Ensemble, and has premiered chamber compositions of Will Koffel and
Bonnie Cochran. As a solo pianist, Vincent’s teachers have included Ms. Helena Wun of Hong Kong, and Ms. Sheila Hardy of the Vancouver Academy of Music. He has performed in piano master classes of Lee Kum-Sing, Janina Fialkowska, and Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio, as well as chamber music master classes of Bayla Keyes (violinist), Lynn Chang (violinist), Carol Rodland (violist), Anne Martindale Williams (cellist), Rhonda Rider (cellist), and many others. In Vancouver, he had appeared in many local music festivals, including the Burnaby Clef Society Festival, in which he was named the most talented performer twice (1998-99). Some of his other honors include second place in the Fourth Pacific Piano Competition (1998), and honorable mention in the MIT Symphony Concerto Competition (2005). Over the years, Vincent has performed at many prestigious venues, including Michael J. Fox Theatre (Burnaby, BC), Gateway Theatre (Richmond, BC), Kresge Auditorium of MIT, and more recently, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cambridge, MA). Vincent was also interested in composing. His Capriccio was awarded second place in the 1998 Jean Coulthard Composing Competition. His commissioned works include a quartet for Ms. Solina Sze, and an arrangement of Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony for the Vancouver Piano Ensemble. Currently Vincent is a postdoctoral fellow at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT. He received his bachelor degree in mathematics and pharmacology from the University of British Columbia in 2000, doctoral degree in neuroscience and biomedical engineering from MIT/Harvard Medical School in 2007, and admitted as a Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music, UK, in 1997. |
 Piano Trio: with Catherine McCurry, violin, and Darius Torchinsky, cello. Photo credit: Joe Foley |
