Pianist Katherine Chi has performed throughout Europe and North America to great acclaim, including her 2003 New York recital debut, about which The New York Times wrote, “Ms. Chi displayed a keen musical intelligence and a powerful arsenal of technique.” She has established herself as one of Canada’s fastest rising stars of classical music.

Ms. Chi made her recital debut at Lincoln Center in the 2008-2009 season. She has appeared with the CBC Radio Orchestra in Vancouver, Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Toronto Sinfonia, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Quebec Symphony Orchestra, and has performed at festivals including Aldeburgh, Banff, Canada’s Festival of the Sound, Marlboro, Osnabrück Kammermusik, Germany's Ruhr, Santander Summer Music, and Festival Vancouver.

Chi first studied at The Curtis Institute of Music and continued her studies with Russell Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where she received her Master's degree and Graduate and Artist Diplomas. She later studied for two years at the International Piano Foundation in Como, Italy, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. Other teachers include Seymour Lipkin, Galina Eguirazarova, and Wassily Lobanov. Ms. Chi was a prizewinner at the 1998 Busoni International Piano Competition and was the first Canadian and first woman to win Canada’s Honens International Piano Competition. Her debut recording, of works by Beethoven and Rachmaninov, was released in 2003 on Canada’s Arktos label. At the present time she is a resident in Boston where she teaches and pursues her Doctorate at the New England Conservatory of Music.