Yunjie Chen, pianist -
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Published on: 9/12/2007
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Yunjie Chen,
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YUNJIE CHEN, pianist
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YUNJIE CHEN, pianist
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Pianist YUNJIE CHEN won First Prize in the 2001 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and the special John and Esther Browning Memorial Prize.The Young Concert Artists Series presented his Washington, DC debut at the Kennedy Center, his New York debut at the 92nd Street Y, sponsored by the Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize, and his Boston debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this season.
Mr. Chen has given recitals throughout China, has performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra, has traveled to Hong Kong to perform, and has appeared as soloist with the SBS Television and Radio Youth Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House in Australia.Recent concerts in the U.S. with orchestra include the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Paducah (KY) Symphony and the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 with the Fort Smith Symphony.Mr. Chen gives recitals this season for the JCC of Greater Washington and at Southwest Missouri State University.
When he was twelve years old, Mr. Chen won First Prize in China's National Piano Competition, and has since won top prizes at the International Piano Competition of China and the Ettlingen International Competition in Germany, as well as the Maurice M. Clairmont Piano Prize of Young Concert Artists.
Born in Jiaxin City, China in 1980, Yunjie Chen started the piano at the age of four, and went to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at the age of ten.