Jie Chen, from Guangdong in the Canton Province of China, has established herself as a mature musician with "broad technical mastery, colorful music imagination, and the ability to communicate and move the audience around the world." Chen has performed as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia of Poland, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc.

Chen has performed piano recitals in major concert venues throughout the United States including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York City, the Terrace Theater in the Kennedy Center, the Bass Performing Arts Center in Fort Worth, the Raymond F. Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Le Petit Trianon Theatre in the Bay area, The Forum in Harrisburg and the Historic Asolo Theater in Sarasota. She has been featured in such prestigious series as the Dame Myra Hess Memorial in Chicago, the Schubert Club in St. Paul and the Gilmore Rising Stars series in Kalamazoo.

Internationally, Chen has performed at the Leipzig Hochschule and the Mendelssohn House in Germany, the San Remo Opera Theatre in Italy, Isrotel Royal Garden, Eilat, Tel Aviv and La Salle Cortot in Paris.

On Jie Chen’s 21st birthday, she won the first Villa-Lobos International Piano Competition’s Silver Medal, adding to her numerous list of prestigious prizes —including the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition in Israel, the Santander Paloma O’Shea International Competition in Spain, the Van Cliburn International Competition in America, the Piano-E-International Competition in America, the Washington International and the Missouri Southern International competitions. In 2006, she was awarded the Festorazzi Prize from the Curtis Institute for Best Pianist of the Year. The New York Times wrote, “she has shown she is more than a virtuosic clone.” Jie has appeared in concerts and recitals to rave reviews, including her major orchestral debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch playing the Rachmaninoff Second Concerto in 2001.

Other American debuts include concerts at the Verizon Hall in the Kimmel Center of Philadelphia, the Bass Performing Arts Center in Texas, the Terrace Theater in the Kennedy Center, the Schubert Club in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Orchestra with Osmo Vanska, the New Jersey Symphony with Neemi Jarvi, and the Richmond Symphony. Internationally, she has played with the Sanremo Sifonica in Italy, the Isreal Philharmonic, the Sinfonia Varsovia of Poland, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid with Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc, La Salle Cortot in Paris and more. Her performances have been broadcast by television and radio all over the world. She is also an avid chamber music player and has collaborated with famous groups such as the Aviv Quartet of Israel, Takacs Quartet of Hungary and the Ysaye Quartet of France.

Many who interact with Jie comment not only on her virtuosity and artistry, but also on her charming personality. She is always eager to interact and do outreach programs, and is thus much in demand for new engagements, as well as re-engagements. “I realize how important it is to connect to audiences not only with pure artistry, but with that ‘something extra’ that makes each member of the audience believe you are playing only for them-by giving everything inside me to entertain as well as enlighten the listeners with the world’s greatest music. And for those who are being exposed to the music perhaps for the first time, I feel an obligation to show them why it matters, so they will leave the concert thinking, ‘Oh! So this is what it is all about! I had no idea!”

Recent and upcoming concerts include performances with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Kravis Center of Florida, The Gilmore Rising Star Series, the Musee du Louvre in Paris, and much more both in the United States and around the world.

Jie speaks English perfectly and lives in the United States. She started playing the piano at age four and was accepted into the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory at age eight. At the age of 13, Chen was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music as the recipient of a merit-based full tuition scholarship, to study with Claude Frank and Seymour Lipkin. She is continuing her studies at the Mannes College of Music with Jerome Rose in New York. Jie Chen is a Yamaha Pianos Artist.