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Gloria Chien |
Pianist Gloria Chien has been praised by
Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe for "a
wondrously rich palette of colors, which she
mixes with dashing bravado and with an uncanny
precision of calibration…Chien's performance had
it all, and it was fabulous."
Ms. Chien has presented solo recitals at the
Gardner Museum, Harvard Musical Association, the
Monadnock Music Festival in New Hampshire, the
Caramoor Festival in New York State, and the
National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She has
appeared as a featured soloist with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall under the
baton of Maestro Keith Lockhart and Thomas
Dausgaard. In addition, she has been soloist
with the New England Conservatory Honors
Orchestra under Maestro Sergiu Comissiona, and
the NEC Youth Philharmonic conducted by Benjamin
Zander. Ms. Chien was invited to travel with the
Massachusetts delegation and former Governor
William Weld to perform several concerts in
Chile. Ms. Chien has attended the Verbier Music
Festival in Switzerland in 1999, as well as the
Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA
in 2001
In 1994, Ms. Chien won first prize in the Harry
Dubbs Memorial Competition, the Harvard Musical
Association Achievement Award, the New England
Conservatory Preparatory School Concerto
Competition, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Youth Concerto Competition. In 1995, she placed
second in the Fite Family National Piano
Competition, as well as in the Oberlin
International Piano Competition. She was the
winner of the New England Conservatory Piano
Department Concerto Competition in 1998, and has
recently placed fifth at the 2000 World Piano
Competition in Cincinnati. She was the third
prize winner of the 2000 San Antonio
International Piano Competition where she also
received the prize for the Best Performance of
the Commissioned Work.
Ms. Chien's recent performances include a
concerto performace with the Taipei Symphony
Orchestra, a solo recital at the Cortot Hall in
Paris, as well as the Presidential Concert
Series at the Lee University in Tennessee. She
is currently a member of the Chameleon Arts
Ensemble of Boston as well as an assistant
professor at the Lee University in Tennessee.
Gloria Chien began playing the piano at the age
of five in her native Taiwan, where she won both
divisions of the National Piano Competition
before coming to the United States when she was
fourteen. She has completed a masters degree and
an undergraduate degree at the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston, and is
currently finishing her Doctoral of Musical Arts
Degree. Her private teachers have included
Russell Sherman and Wha-Kyung Byun. |
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