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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, performing the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 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 Pacific Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Cincinnati and Baltimore Chamber Orchestras, the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, the Auckland Philharmonia and the Wellington Sinfonia in New Zealand and the Orquesta Ossodre in Uruguay. Following her performance as soloist with the Boston Pops under conductor Keith Lockhart, The Boston Globe raved: "Wendy Chen's performance of the Saint-Sans Concerto No. 2 had stamina, chops, brilliance and sensitivity."
Ms. Chen has performed in 27 of the 50 states, including recitals at Merkin Concert Hall in New York and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and she has given recitals and played chamber music at Bargemusic, Boston Chamber Society, Aspen, Montreal, Tanglewood, Spoleto USA, E1 Paso ProMusica, Bridgehampton, and Seattle Chamber Music festivals.
Upcoming performances include concerto engagements with the Utah Symphony, the Riverside County Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque and the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, recitals at the University of Louisville, at Boise State University, in Chatham, MA and in Ruidoso, NM, and a special concert on October 26, 2001 at the Morgan Library in New York with YCA alumnus cellist Carter Brey.
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.
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 Popkins 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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