Yunjie Chen

Yunjie Chen has garnered praise and top honors for his skill and musicality ever since he won First Prize in China's National Piano Competition at the age of twelve. Since then, he has performed to great acclaim throughout his native China and internationally, including a performance with the SBS Television and Radio Youth Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House in Australia .

As a Young Concert Artists winner, Chen made his Washington DC debut at the Kennedy Center , his New York debut at the 92nd Street Y, and his Boston debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum .He has given recitals throughout China, has performed Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 with the Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra and No.2 with the China center symphony Orchestra ,he has traveled to Hong Kong to perform, and has appeared as soloist with the SBS Television and Radio Youth Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

Recent concerts in the U.S. with orchestra include the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Paducah (KY) Symphony and the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 with the Fort Smith Symphony. Chen gave recitals for the JCC of Greater Washington and at Southwest Missouri State University. He gave a concert tour in Austria and Germany presented by the KAWAI company. In 2008 he was invited by the U.S. ambassador in Beijing , Clark Randt Jr., to give a recital at the U.S. Embassy.

Chen won top prizes at the International Piano Competition of China, the Ettlingen International Competition in Germany and the Maurice M. Clairmont Piano Prize of Young Concert Artists. He was a finalist in Busoni competition, an Laureate Prize winner (one of the top 6 ) of the Santander competition and he participated in the Van Cliburn competition.

Chen won the third prize in the world piano competition in Cincinnati, OH and was  also a medalist in the Hilton Head international piano competition Recently, Chen won First Prize at the 2009 International Russian music competition in San Jose, California, the 4th Prize at the 2009 Marguerite Long International Piano Competition, where he earned the Prix Serge Arend for the best interprétation of a work by Mozart, and the Prix Germaine Mounier for the best interprétation of a work by Chopin ,he also won the 4th prize in the 2010 Gina Bachauer International Artist competition in Salt Lake City.
 
In Oct.2010,he won the grand first prize in one of the foremost classical music competition in Asia,the Isang Yun music competition in Korea. He was awarded 30,000$ cash award plus concert  and recording engagement. After finishing BM in Manhattan school of music with Phillip Kawin,Chen did MM in Juilliard school with Veda Kaplinsky and Matti Raekallio.He is currentling pursuing AD in CIM with Mr.Antonio Pompa-Baldi.