Pianist I-An Amber CHEN Bio (2019 edition)

Pianist I-An CHEN has won numerous awards including the First Prize of National Music Competition in her native country Taiwan and the Ann arbor Young Artist Competition. She has given diverse performances as a soloist and chamber musician, and has been seen on stage at various venues in Taiwan, China, Southeastern Asia and the United States.

Ms.Chen holds a Master of Piano Performance degree from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the instruction of Dr. Logan Skelton; and another Master degree of Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music(now Collaborative Piano) in UM, where she studied with world renowned collaborative pianist Martin Katz. During her residency in Ann Arbor, she was appointed staff pianist for studios and master classes.The auspicious experiences led to a successful career as a collaborative artist.

She has received critical acclaim for her expertise in the performance of String, Woodwind and Voice Literature. Ms.Chen represented Taiwan to perform in Thailand International Saxophone Conference in Bangkok, 2004. She has been invited as concert pianist and instructor of Taiwan Saxophone Summer Festival since 2002. She has served as a faculty member of the international saxophone summer festival in Beijing, Changde, China;Thailand International Soloist Saxophone Summer Camp and Elite Project, from 2006 until now.

Since the year of 2008 until 2017, she has been invited as the appointed collaborative pianist for The International Jean-Marie Londeix Saxophone Competition. In July, 2009, she worked as the official pianist in resident that collaborated with many prestige saxophonists in the XV World Saxophone Congress. At the same year, as a cofounder of Ensemble Unity, she and the ensemble members made a concert tour in the United States, giving numbers of performances in Los Angeles, Chicago and New Jersey. Since the year of 2011, she has been the official pianist in Singapore Saxophone Symposium. She was invited to serve as the collaborative faculty in Asia Pacific Saxophone Academy,2015. Since 2016, she has been appeared the Taiwan International Saxophone Symposium as the lecturer and collaborative pianist. Recent important performances included the First Asian Saxophone Congress,2016,Sax Art Festival,Shanghai 2018，LiShui International Saxophone Art Festival 2018 and The World Saxophone Congress,Croatia in 2018.
In the year of 2019,Ms.Chen will perform in the Second Asian Saxophone Congress,Shanghai.

Ms.Chen enjoys a distinguished career as a performer and educator. She is currently on the artist faculty as Assistant Professor of the Music Department of Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan.