JIE CHEN Jie Chen is no doubt one of the most exciting young artists in today’s classical music scene. She is winner of numerous prestigious prizes in international competitions, including the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition in Israel, the Santander Paloma O’Shea International Competition in Spain, the Van Cliburn International Competition and the Piano-E-International Competition in Spain.
Her performances have been broadcast by television, internet and radio all over the world. Since her début with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Maestro Wolfgang Sawallisch at the age of sixteen years of age, she has performed in Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls in New York, the Terrace Theater in the, as well as other leading concert venues in the world. The New York Times wrote: “She has shown she is more than a virtuosic clone”. The Gilmore Rising Stars Series reported: “Chen displayed almost frightening technical capabilities wedded to superior musicality”.
A frequent soloist with major orchestras, she has collaborated with the Minnesota Orchestra and Symphony and Neemi Järvi, Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid and Jesús López-Cobos, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia of Poland, among others.
Chen studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and received a full scholarship from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia when she was twelve. She graduated in 2006 and was awarded the prestigious Fastorazzi Prize for Best Pianist of the Year. Jie Chen is a Yamaha Artist.
Read the excellent review of Jie Chen’s recital at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, France (April 2008).
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