Art of Piano: Hung-Kuan Chen

Hung-Kuan Chen

Hung-Kuan Chen. Photo by Dayan Liu

Beethoven and Chopin

Experience an unforgettable evening of music as award-winning pianist Hung-Kuan Chen performs great masterworks by Beethoven and Chopin.

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 winner of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition 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.

Art of Piano is supported by Heather Edwards and Artemisia Foundation, Tema Blackstone and Hung-Kuan Chen.