Vladimir Choi is a two-time First Prize Winner (Strings) at the Canadian Music Competitions (1999 & 2000), three-time Silver Medallist for RCM Examinations in British Columbia, Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (ARCT), and Fellow of Trinity College London (FTCL). As soloist, he has performed in Canada, Italy, England, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, Hong Kong, and Switzerland.
In London, he has been a regular recitalist at numerous venues, such as St Olave's (Hart Street), St Pancras (Euston Road), St John's (Waterloo), St Bride's (Fleet Street), St Stephen's (Gloucester Road), St Stephen Walbrook, and Hinde Street Methodist Church, focusing on violin sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart. Other notable concerts have included Paganini's caprice no. 24 at The O2, Dvořák's romance in F minor at the Old Library of the Royal London Hospital, and Tchaikovsky's violin concerto at the Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital. Over the past year, he has performed Beethoven's violin concerto and five of Bach's six partitas and sonatas for solo violin.
Vladimir Choi is a two-time First Prize Winner (Strings) at the Canadian Music Competitions (1999 & 2000), three-time Silver Medallist for RCM Examinations in British Columbia, Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (ARCT), and Fellow of Trinity College London (FTCL). As soloist, he has performed in Canada, Italy, England, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, Hong Kong, and Switzerland.
In London, he has been a regular recitalist at numerous venues, such as St Olave's (Hart Street), St Pancras (Euston Road), St John's (Waterloo), St Bride's (Fleet Street), St Stephen's (Gloucester Road), St Stephen Walbrook, and Hinde Street Methodist Church, focusing on violin sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart. Other notable concerts have included Paganini's caprice no. 24 at The O2, Dvořák's romance in F minor at the Old Library of the Royal London Hospital, and Tchaikovsky's violin concerto at the Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital. Over the past year, he has performed Beethoven's violin concerto and five of Bach's six partitas and sonatas for solo violin.
Highlights beyond the UK include: in Italy, Bazzini's La Ronde des Lutins at the Duomo di Casalmaggiore; in Singapore, the complete Schubert op. 137 violin sonatas at The Arts House and complete Brahms violin sonatas and Schubert piano trios at The Esplanade; in Stockholm, Mozart and Dvořák string quintets at the Konstnärshuset; and in Hong Kong, Mozart's concertone for two violins and orchestra at Hong Kong City Hall.
Pianists with whom he has collaborated include Ailsa Zaenker, Amanda Chan, Justyna Maj, Albert Lin, Sylvia Yee, and Richard Black. He has participated in a masterclass with renowned violinist Cho-Liang Lin, and in 2006, the 10th Casalmaggiore International Festival in Italy, where he trained with Taras Gabora, Roger Chase, and the Penderecki String Quartet.
As orchestral violinist, he has appeared on stages such as The Barbican, Cadogan Hall, Southwark Cathedral, St John's Smith Square, and The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, under the batons of Sir Neville Marriner, Choi Sown Le, John Forster, Christopher Fifield, Daniel Capps, Ben Gernon, John Lumley, and Byung-Yun Yu, amongst others, and with soloists such as violinist Andrew Dawes, violist Lawrence Power, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, and clarinettist Michael Collins.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, Vladimir began playing the violin at the age of four. He is a former pupil of Derek Pang, Lorraine Grescoe, and for 10 years, Lawrie Hill at the Vancouver Academy of Music.