Taipei-born violinist and performance artist Sarah Chou performs across classical, contemporary, experimental music and free improvisation. Her practice centres on dialogue between Western classical music and other cultural and artistic disciplines. Drawing from speech inflections and musical heritage of Taiwan’s native languages, she treats sound as pure energy capable of language-like communication and connection, reflected in the chant-like melodies and raw acoustic textures.
Integrating physical movement into her practice, Chou performs as a "moving musician" across physical theatre, dance, and performance art. She treats sound, body, and space as interrelated mediums that function like musical counterpoint, with each autonomous voice remaining distinct yet interweaving to form a “cross-media” performance practice.
In contemporary classical music, Chou has performed with ensembles including Studio Acht, the Asian Composer’s League (ACL), and the TNUA New Music Workshop. Expanding into performance art, her interdisciplinary creations include hey Bach, I’ll be back in a Beat and co-created works at the Taipei Fringe Festival. Her performance credits also include Crippled Symmetries at Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, multiple projects at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Dance Festival Malta, alongside numerous art festivals, creative platforms, and free improvisation sessions.
Chou began studying violin outside the traditional music system before entering Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) in Violin Performance, later transferring to graduate with a degree in Music Theory & Composition. During her music studies, she engaged extensively with coursework in the New Media Arts and Dance departments, establishing a singular perspective on performance art across instrumental playing, composition, and diverse disciplines. She continues her research and performance of classical and contemporary music while developing new forms of performance practice.
周芯出生於台北，是一位小提琴家與劇場創作者。她的音樂演奏涵蓋古典、當代、實驗音樂與自由即興。在音樂的實踐上，她著重西方古典音樂與不同文化領域間的對話，汲取台灣各民族傳統語言的聲調與音樂傳統，將聲音視為如同語言般溝通與連結的純粹能量，反映於其吟唱般的演奏風格，與具「原始」色彩的聲音質地之中。
除音樂演奏外，她也將肢體元素融入表演的探索中，以「移動音樂家（moving musician）」的表演方式，穿梭於身體劇場、舞蹈與行為藝術等跨領域創作中。她將聲音、身體與空間視為彼此自主的媒材，如音樂中的對位線條般，時而獨立卻也彼此交織，共構出一種「跨媒材式」的表演型態。
在古典音樂領域，她曾參與捌號會所、亞洲作曲聯盟、北藝大新音樂工作坊等多個當代音樂團體的演出製作。她同時跨足表演藝術領域，創作了多個跨領域作品，如結合舞蹈與音樂的《欸巴哈，我出去一下等等回來》，也於台北藝穗節發表劇場作品，並參與毓秀美術館《殘缺的對稱》、臺灣當代文化實驗場（C-LAB）多項計畫、馬爾他舞蹈節（Dance Festival Malta），以及多個藝術節、創作平台與自由即興演出。
周芯自幼在科班體制外學習小提琴，並以小提琴主修進入國立臺北藝術大學，日後轉主修畢業於理論作曲組。在校期間她亦大量參與新媒體藝術學系和舞蹈系課程，從演奏、作曲，再到不同領域的探索，這段時期的累積奠定了她對於表演藝術的獨特觀點。目前她正持續投入古典與當代音樂的研究與演奏，並持續開發新型態的音樂製作。