Ray CHEN
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(1989, Taipei, China (Taiwan), Australian nationality)
Born in 1989, Ray Chen began Suzuki violin studies in Australia at the age of four. He made his solo orchestral debut with the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra when he was eight, and the following year was invited to perform at the opening celebration concert for the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. In 2005, he was accepted to The Curtis Institute of Music, where he works with Aaron Rosand. He has also studied with David Cerone, Shmuel Ashkenasi, and Joseph Silverstein, as well as with Antje Weithaas at the 2005 Beethoven Festival in Bonn.
Ray Chen’s awards include First Prizes in the National Kendall Violin Competition in Australia (2005), the Australian National Youth Concerto Competition (2002), and the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition. He also won First Prize in the 2008-09 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, where he was awarded the Ronald Asherson First Prize too, the Friends of Music Concert Prize, and the loan of a 1721 Stradivarius known as the “Macmillan.” His performances in the U.S. for the 2009-2010 season include debut recitals at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on December 8, 2009 and Merkin Concert Hall in New York on January 12, 2010, as part of the Young Concert Artists Series, as well as a debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. He also performs at the Aspen Music Festival with violinist Robert McDuffie, the 2009 Sintra Festival of Music and Dance in Portugal, the Port Washington Library (NY), the West Philadelphia Music Committee, and the Friends of Music Concert Series (NY).
As Grand Prize Winner of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition he has obtained a three-year loan of the “Huggins” Stradivarius from the Nippon Music Foundation and numerous concert engagements, amongst others a concert tour, performing with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic under Jaap van Zweden and Aldert Vermeulen, the National Orchestra of Belgium under Rumon Gamba, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg under Emmanuel Krivine.
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