Stella Chen (born 1992) is an American violinist. [1] She was the first prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Belgium in 2019; won the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2020; [2] and was named the Young Artist of the Year, Gramophone Classical Music Awards in 2023.
Chen is a graduate of Harvard University (BA, psychology), the Juilliard School, and the New England Conservatory of Music, where she earned a master's degree. [1] She studied at Juilliard under Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, Li Lin and Catherine Cho (DMA 2021). [3] [4] From 2019 to 2023 she studied at the Kronberg Academy with Mihaela Martin . [5]
Chen performed as soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony and appeared in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Vienna's Musikverein and Berliner Philharmonie. [6] She plays chamber music with Perlman, Weilerstein, and Robert Levin. [7]
From 2019 to 2023, Chen played the 'Huggins' 1708 Stradivarius violin loaned from the Nippon Music Foundation [8] [9] and plays the 1700 ex-Petri Stradivarius on loan from Ryuji Ueno and Rare Violins In Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative. [10]
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