Jenny Chen showed exceptional promise at a young age. She was accepted
at the Curtis Institute at 10 years old, and then sped through to her master’s degree at Yale at age 18. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Eastman School of Music and staff pianist at the Curtis Institute of Music. As a winner of the Lowry Award, Chen was honored with a Carnegie debut in 2019. Her mentors include Eleanor Sokoloff, Gary Graffman, Robert Blocker, Melvin Chen, Douglas Humpherys, Anne-Marie McDermott, and André-Michel Schub. While still quite young, she distinguished herself by winning numerous first prizes in Taiwan, including the Kawai Piano Competition, the Baroque Competition, the Steinbach Music Competition, Mandarin Daily Piano Competition, the Vienna National Piano Competition, the Yamaha Piano Competition, the Seidof & Sons Piano Competition, the Victory Cup Competition, the Taipei Music Competition, and the National Music Competition sponsored by the Ministry of Education. In the United States Chen received top prizes at the 2016 MTNA National Competition, the Rodney and Lorna Sawatsky Rising Stars Concerto Competition, the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition, the Fifth New York International Piano Competition, the 12th Eastman International Piano Competition, and the Young Concert Artists’ International auditions. Chen has been on full scholarships throughout her education, as well as winning a Teaching Assistant Award at Eastman, the Suzanne Roberts Cultural Development Fund Annual Fellow, the Taiwan Chi-Mei Artist Scholarship, the Stravinsky Awards Scholarship, and the Taiwan Dong-Sung Culture Foundation Scholarship. Chen made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 14, and subsequently the orchestra invited her again. She also performed with Taipei 10 Jenny Chen at Tippet Rise
