Pi-hsien
Chen (Cologne, Germany)
PERFORMANCE with Manos Tsangaris,
Saturday, July 26, 1997, 7pm, Tacoma Art Museum.
Pi-hsien
Chen was born in Taiwan and came to Cologne when she was nine
years old. A year later she was admitted in the class of Hans-Otto
Schmidt-Neuhaus and at the age of 21 she won the first prize at
the ARD-International-Piano-Competition in Munich. Later she won
first prizes at the A.Schönberg-Competition in Rotterdam
and at the J.S.Bach-Competition in Washington D.C. She has performed
with many major orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra,
the BBC-Symphony-Orchestra, the Concertgebouw-Orchestra, the Zurich-Tonhalle-Orchestra
and all German Radio-Symphony- Orchestras. She worked with conductors
including Bernhard Haitink, Paul Sacher, Sir Colin Davis, Pierre
Boulez, Charles Dutoit, Marek Janowsky, Hans Zender and Peter
Eötvös and has taken part in numerous music-festivals
including the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the London Prom's, the
Osaka Festival, the Hong-Kong-Arts-Festival, the Festival d'Automne
Paris, the Festival Wien Modern and the Triennale Cologne. Her
increasing interest and involvment in contemporary music has developed
in cooperation with composers including Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz
Stockhausen and Gyorgy Kurtag. Since 1983 she has been a professor
for the piano at the Musikhochschule, Köln.
Available on CD: J.S.Bach, "Goldberg Variations"
(Naxos), P.Boulez, "Notations" and "Structures
II", with B.Wambach (CBS), O.Messiaen, "Harawi",
with S.v Osten (ITM)
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