Pi-hsien Chen,  陳必先 pianist Ms. Chen was born in Taiwan and came to Cologne when she was nine years old. One year later, she was admitted in the class of Hans-Otto Schmidt-Neuhaus. At the age of 21, she won the first prize at the ARD-International Piano Competition in Munich; Later on the first prizes at the A. Schoenberg-Competition in Rotterdam and the J.S.Bach-Competition in Washington DC. She performed with important orchestras, such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw-Orchestra, The Zurich-Tonhalle-Orchestra and most of all German Radio-Symphony Orchestras. Conductors, with whom she has worked, were Bernhard Haiting, Paul Sacher, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Marek Janowsky, Hans Zender and Peter Eoetvoes. She was a partner of Hermann Baumann, Pierre-Laurant Aimard, Augustin Dumay. Pi-hsien Chen took part in numerous music festivals: She gave performances in the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the London Proms, the Osaka Festival, the Hongkong Arts Festival, Festival d’Automne Paris, Musica Strasbourg, Huddersfield Festival, the Festival Wien Modern, the Triennale Cologne, Wien Festival, German Pavillon of the EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, the l’Antheron Piano Festival in France and at the Sao Raimundo Nonato in Piavi, Brasil. Her increasing interest and engagement for contemporary music grew in the co-operation with composers as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gyoergy Kurtag and Elliott Carter. Beside that she performed contemporary music with ensembles like Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain und Asko Ensemble. Since 1983, Pi-hsien Chen was a professor for piano at the University of Music in Cologne, since 2004 she continues teaching in the University of Music in Freiburg. Ms. Chen has given courses in Sibelius Academy Helsinki, and toured in India in 2010. She will premier Lei Liang’s Piano Concerto in April, 2011 at Taipei National Concert Hall. (March, 2011) Published on CD are: Johann-Sebastian Bach, “Goldberg Variations” (Naxos) Pierre Boulez, “Notations” and “Structures II” with B. Wambach (Sony) Olivier Messiaen, “Harawi” with S.v. Osten (ITM) Jean Barraqué Sonates (Telos) Arnold Schoenberg, Complete Piano Musik for Two Hands (Hat No Art) Xiaoyong Chen, “Invisible Landscapes” (Radio Bremen) York Hoeller, “Pensées”, 2nd Piano Concerto (Largo) York Hoeller, Piano Works for Two Pianos with K. Becker (CPO) Johann Sebastian Bach, “Art of Fugue” and “Goldberg Variations” (CFM Berlin) Pierre Boulez, “Notations and Three Sonatas” (Hat No Art)

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