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Chiu-Yuan Chen Clarinet |
Equally versatile in orchestra and chamber music, Ms. Chen has performed as principal clarinet, E-flat and bass clarinet at the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, the New Juilliard Ensemble, National Taiwan Normal University Orchestra and Wind Symphony. She has been participated in the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, Focus! Festival, Juilliard Chamber Festival, and Leipzig International Summer Academy. Ms. Chen received her bachelor degree with high honors in music performance and education from National Taiwan Normal University, as a student of William Chen; Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, under the tutelage of Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima Neidich; and she is now a candidate of DMA degree at The City University of New York. She has been a clarinet member at Hong Kong Sinfonietta since September, 2008. |
Taiwanese clarinetist Ms. Chiu-Yuan Chen has been praised by the New York Times as "zesty", "energetic", and "capturing the music's spirit" after her performance at Juilliard Chamber Festival 2006. She performs internationally as a soloist, chamber music artist, and orchestra player. As a soloist, Ms. Chen has given her Carnegie hall debut recital at Weill Hall in 2008, as a winner of the Artist International Presentation in New York. She has won the first prize in the National Music Award for Solo Clarinet in Taiwan and the special prize of "The Best Performance of Contemporary Chinese Work" in the "Universal Chinese Concerto Competition of the 21st Century", for which she has performed the Clarinet Concerto of a renowned Taiwanese composer, Yu-Chou Chen, on tour with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, introducing Taiwan's contemporary music.