Pianist, I-Chen Chen will be the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto #21 in C for our October 22, 2006 concert celebrating Mozart.
Dr. Chen has appeared as soloist and in chamber music throughout the United States and Taiwan, her native country. She has performed in Taipei, Sarasota, Chicago, and New York's Lincoln Center, and her performances have been aired in the Manhattan Classical Opera and Concert Series by Manhattan Neighborhood Network TV. She has collaborated with outstanding artists such as Tatiana Nikolayeva, Albert Lotto, Jonathan Strasser, Steve Moshman, and Esther Lamneck. In addition to the standard repertoire, Dr. Chen has premiered compositions by such composers as Barbara Jazwinski and film composers Tiffany Wu, Chien-Nien Chen, and Gavin Keese.
Dr. Chen garnered first prizes in the Taiwan National Piano Competition, the Concerto Competition at the Summit Music Festival, and the Steinhardt Concerto Competition at New York University, and was also a prizewinner in the Washington International Piano Competition and the Five Towns Piano Competition. She was a recipient of the M. Munz Scholarship at the Juilliard School and the award of Outstanding Leadership in Graduate Piano Performance at New York University in 2003.
Receiving her Bachelor and Master degrees from the Juilliard School and her PhD degree from New York University, Dr. Chen studied piano with Martin Canin, Miyoko, and Albert Lotto. Her research interests include 19th century piano literature, especially Frederic Chopin's piano works. Formerly a teacher at New York University, Dr. Chen is currently on the piano faculty at Concordia College and Turtle Bay Music School.