2021 IPPEC Examiner

Yu-Yen Chen

Manhattan School of Music

Yu-Yen Chen worked and learned with Alexandre Moutouzkine, the winner of the Rubinstein Piano Competition, in New York in 2014. He was highly praised by the pianist Arkady Aronov as "Gifted pianist with strong technical resources. Impressive temperament and imagination. Professional attention to the texts of compositions ".

Mr. Chen graduated from the Music Department of National Taipei University of Arts for bachelor degree, National Tainan University of Arts for music master degree and the Manhattan School of Music for music master degree. He has a double master's degree from two top music schools in Taiwan and the United States, and won numerous awards during his career, and won the first prize in piano major in the music department of the university entrance examination in 1995; He also went to Italy for the 16th Cita di Barletta Young Musicians International Competition, and also got the first prize. And he got the second prize in Asian International Piano Competition in Malaysia. He has held many solo piano recitals in the United States, Italy, France, Britain, Singapore, Malaysia, China and so on. In 2017, he was invited by Taiwan Philharmonic Radio "Young Artist Showcase'' for an exclusive interview. In 2019, he was interviewed exclusively by Sanli News for "Chen Yuyan's Overseas Piano Edge '', sharing many years of overseas teaching and the learning experience. In addition to piano playing, he has rich teaching experience. He had lived in Singapore to coach countless students. When he was in Singapore, he was selected as the best teacher of "Singapore Aureus Academy ''.

In addition to classical music, he has crossed different fields, combining music, literature and theater, and established the "N9 in Music" cross-border band. Hope to compose multi-level sounds full of an associative world, and create brand-new music style and aesthetic taste.