Wendy Chen

• Pianist

Biography

At the age of fifteen, Ms. Chen debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under conductor Andre Previn. Since then, she has appeared with the Utah Symphony, the Boston Pops, the Pacific Symphony, the Cincinnati and Baltimore Chamber Orchestras, the Florida Philharmonic, the Hartford Symphony, California’s Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, the Lake Charles Symphony, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, the Yakima Symphony, the Auckland Philharmonia and the Wellington Sinfonia in New Zealand, and the Orquesta Ossodre in Uruguay.

Ms. Chen continues to perform numerous works as soloist with orchestra this season, including the Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Paducah Symphony, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Phoenix and Wichita symphonies, and concertos with the West Shore Symphony in Michigan and the South Dakota Symphony. In recital, she performs for the University of Louisville, the Artist Series in Tallahassee, Allied Concerts in Minnetonka, MN, the City of Lakewood (CO) Cultural Center, and the Lee County (SC) Arts Council.