Program 90 min without intermission. Works by: BRAHMS, CHOPIN, BACH, BEETHOVEN, DEBUSSY, RACHMANIINOFF

Pianist Hung-Kuan Chen 陳宏寬
www.hungkuanchen.com

“This man plays music with uncommon understanding and the instrument with uncommon imagination.” – Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe

Pianist Hung-Kuan Chen was born in Taipei and raised in Germany. His early studies fostered strong roots in Germanic Classicism tempered with the sensibility of Chinese philosophy. The winners of both the Rubinstein and Busoni International Piano Competitions and Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the recipient of an Avery Fisher Grant, Chen has collaborated with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach and Hans Graf, and his colleagues include the Tokyo and Shanghai string quartets, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinists Cho-Liang Lin and Roman Totenberg, clarinetist David Shifrin, and pianist Tema Blackstone. He holds an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory where he studied with Russell Sherman. His early studies were with Hans Leygraf in Germany at the Hannover Hochschule and with Béla Böszörményi-Nagy. An adjudicator in international competitions, including the Van Cliburn, Busoni, Honens Competitions, and International China Competition, Chen is a former faculty member of Boston University, the New England Conservatory, and the Shanghai Conservatory, and he has been a professor at Juilliand and Yale since 2014.