Yi-Yang Chen

Yi-Yang Chen Has been playing the piano since the age of eight. Earlier this month, he won first prize in the Washington International Competition for Piano sponsored by the Friday Morning Music Club Foundation. He also recently won First place in the Waring International Piano Competition, through which he will give his Carnegie Weill Hall debut on October 18, 2017. Mr. Chen has attended the Perlman Music Program, Taos School of Music Program, and Banff Music Centre, and was awarded a fellowship at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. He has participated in master classes with Itzhak Perlman, Emmanuel Ax, Thomas Sauer, and with members of the Cleveland, Juilliard, Shanghai, Borromeo, Brentano, and Guarneri String Quartets. As a winner of the 2012 MTNA Young Artist Competition, Mr. Chen was awarded a Steinway piano and two concerts in Miami sponsored by the Chopin Foundation/USA. He has excelled as an award winner in other competitions, including the San Jose International Piano Competition, Seattle International Piano Competition, Pacific International Piano Competition (Canada), High Point Piano Competition, Hartford Chopin International Piano Competition, Thousand Islands International Chopin Piano Competition, Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition, Kerikeri International Piano Competition, Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition, Five Towns Music Competition, and Schubert Club Scholarship Competition. Mr. Chen is currently a doctoral candidate in Piano Performance at the Eastman School of Music, where he also received his bachelor’s degree, studying with Douglas Humpherys. He received his master’s degree in 2014 from the Juilliard School as a student of Robert McDonald and Jerome Lowenthal.