WENDY CHEN
Pianist
Pianist WENDY CHEN won the 1997 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and was awarded the Bruce Hungerford Prize. The Young Concert Artists Series has presented Ms. Chen in recital at New York's 92nd Street Y, sponsored by YCA's Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women Artists, in recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, in her New York concerto debut with the New York Chamber Symphony at Alice Tully Hall, and in the "YCA Encores" Series at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall.
At the age of fifteen, Ms. Chen debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under conductor Andre Previn. Since then, she has appeared with the Utah Symphony, the Boston Pops, the Pacific Symphony, the Cincinnati and Baltimore Chamber Orchestras, the Florida Philharmonic, the Hartford Symphony, California's Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, the Lake Charles Symphony, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, the Yakima Symphony, the Auckland Philharmonia and the Wellington Sinfonia in New Zealand, and the Orquesta Ossodre in Uruguay.
Ms. Chen continues to perform numerous works as soloist with orchestra this season, including the SHostakovich Concerto No. 1 with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Paducah Symphony, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Phoenix and Wichita symphonies, and concertos with the West Shore Symphony in Michigan and the South Dakota Symphony. In recital, she performs for the University of Louisville, the Artist Series in Tallahassee, Allied Concerts in Minnetonka, MN, the City of Lakewood (CO) Cultural Center, and the Lee County (SC) Arts Council.
Ms. Chen has performed in 35 of the 50 states, including appearances at Merkin Concert Hall, the Morgan Library and Bargemusic in New York, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Boston Chamber Society, and the festivals of Aspen, Montreal, Tanglewood, Spoleto USA, El Paso ProMusica, Bridgehampton, and Seattle. She also tours with Spoleto USA.
At the age of seventeen, Ms. Chen won First Prize in the National Chopin Competition, resulting in her debut recital at Alice Tully Hall, was awarded an Irving S. Gilmore Young Artists Award, and was named a Presidential Scholar by the National Foundation for the Arts. Other awards include First Prize in the Washington International Competition.
Born in Los Angeles, Wendy Chen attended The Colburn School of Performing Arts as a student of Dorothy Hwang and received private instruction from Aube Tzerko and Kwang-Wu Kim.
Ms. Chen received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, where she was a student of Leon Fleisher. Ms. Chen's debut solo recording, CHOPIN, has been released on the RCM label.
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