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Chih-Lin Chou(周志林）, the artistic director of Canadian Association of Oriental Fine Arts (CAoFA) and Gu-Zheng Ensemble of Montreal (GZEM), is a Chinese-Canadian virtuoso of the guzheng, the 21-string Chinese zither. Since 2002, she has worked to present traditional and contemporary music to a mixed, but largely Chinese-Canadian audience in a concert environment. She has wished to find venues and ways of promoting a greater awareness of Chinese culture and the instrument, guzheng, and this activity has found its fruits through her dedication to teaching, CD recording, commissioning of a mixed live / electroacoustic composition by Canadian composer Kevin Austin, and the on-going project of 'Oriented Towards Sound' (OTS) concert series. To encourage the local development of Chinese music and to raise the professional quality of performance in the long run, Central Conservatory of Music Chinese Instrumental Performance Grade Examination is incorporated in her teaching.

Since 2009, Caofa has also produced an annual concert in cooperation with the Confucius Institute in Québec, at Dawson College in Montréal. The concerts have included music, calligraphy, dances from numerous asian cultures, sand painting, recitation and integrated stage presentations of singing, movement, and story telling.

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