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Born in Vancouver, she began playing piano at the age of five as the youngest of three gifted sisters. At age nine, she made her orchestral debut playing Mendelssohn’s first piano concerto with the Seattle Symphony. Three years later she became the youngest-ever protégé of György Sebok, before continuing her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Claude Frank, himself once a student of Artur Schnabel. Later studies were undertaken with Fou Ts’ong in Europe. In 1993, Connie was awarded the Sylva Gelber Prize for the most outstanding classical artist under the age of thirty.
In addition to international concerto performances, numerous solo recitals have taken her to Canada, the USA, Iceland, England, Spain, Italy, Germany, Japan and China. As a chamber music partner, Shih is sought after by many artists. With her duo partner, cellist Steven Isserlis, she not only performs regularly on the great stages of the world but has also recorded much of the repertoire for cello and piano. These include the critically acclaimed albums ‘A Golden Cello Decade, 1878–1888’ (2022), ‘Music from Proust’s Salon’ (2021) and ‘The Cello in Wartime’ (2017), as well as the first recording of Carl Reinecke’s cello sonatas and the Beethoven sonatas with cellist Manuel Fischer-Dieskau.
Connie’s performances are frequently broadcast via television and radio on CBC (Canada), the BBC (UK), and SWR, NDR and WDR (Germany), as well as on other stations across North America, Asia and Europe.
Connie has been an adjunct professor at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz and at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Since 2022 she has been Professor of Piano and Piano Chamber Music at the Salzburg Mozarteum. She has also given masterclasses at prestigious music institutes and has been a lecturer at the Mozarteum Summer Academy, the Casalmaggiore International Music Festival in Italy, and Musiktage am Rhein in Germany.
