At the age of 20, pianist Jie Chen has already established herself as a mature musician with "broad technical mastery, colorful musical imagination, and the ability to communicate and move the audience around the world."

Highlights of Ms. Chen's recent concerts appearances include solo recital debuts at Alice Tully Hall in New York in November 2005; Solo Recital Debut at the Terrace Theater in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C.; She has performed for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert, Chicago, IL; the Schubert Club in Minneapolis, MN; and solo recital tour throughout the United States. Upcoming concerto engagements include the Minnesota Orchestra with Maestro Osmo Vanska, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Meeme Jarvi, The Vienna Chamber Orchestra with maestro Phillp Entremeont, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, among others. She will also make her recording debuts with "One Thousand Lakes" label and Yamaha "Piano Soft".

Admitted to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music in 1998 at the age of twelve, Jie Chen made her major Orchestral debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Maestro Wolfgang Sawallisch playing the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto three years later. Orchestras she has collaborated with include the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Sanremo Sifonica orchestra in Italy, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Madrid Symphony Orchestra. Already an experienced recitalist, she has appeared as soloist in major concert venues in the US and abroad, including the Verizon Hall in the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts in Philadelphia; Steinway Hall in New York; Hewlett Public Library in Long Island, the Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis; The Bass Performing arts Center in Texas; the Leipzig Hochschule and The Mendelssohn House in Leipzig, Germany; the Sanremo Opera Theatre in Sanreo, Italy; Museum of Art and The Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, Isreal, and the Palacio de Theatre in Santander, Spain.

Ms. Chen's performances has been broadcast by the Italian National Television Network "RAIUNO", The German Radio "MDR", The Isreal National Television, The National Television of Spain, the Minnesota Public Radio, and "Performance Today" of the National Public Radio. In addition, she has been featured in and praised by numerous major newspapers and music crtics, including the "Philadelphia Inquirer", "Star Tribune", "World Journal", "Harretz" of Isreal, as well as many major musical Web site.

Over the years, Ms.Chen has won numerous awards including first prizes in "Piano Arts" National Competition, "Five Town" Young Artist Competition in New York, 3rd Prize in the "8th Sanremo Classico International Piano Competition" in Italy, Grand Prize in the 10th "Missouri Southern International Piano Competition", (the jury decide not to award the second prize) and Grand Prize in the "2nd Piano-E-Competition" in Minneapolis, First Prize in Washington International Piano Competition, 4th Prize in the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, Isreal, Jury Discretionary Award in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, and 3rd Prize in santander paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition. Alongside her solo achievements, she is also an avid chamber music player, and has collaborated with many famous groups including the Aviv Quartet of Isreal, Takacs Quartet of Hungary, and Ysaye Quartet of France.

Ms. Chen was born in Guang Dong, China. At the age of four, she started playing the piano and one year later, was awarded the first prize in the state music competition. Virtually self-taught, she was accepted into the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory at the age of eight, studying with Er-Yao Lin and Zi-Jie Wu. Three years later, Ms. Chen was selected as the First Prize winner to attend the first Music Bridge summer program in Canada with a full scholarship from the whole Conservatory, praised by international famed judge Mr. Lee Kum Sing as having the musicality well beyond her age. She has attended Masterclass conducted by Leon Fleisher, Peter Frankl, Rudolf Buchbinder, Gary Graffman, Anton Kuerti, Emmanual Ax, Jerome Rose, Arie Vardi, and Marri Raekallio. Ms. Chen lives in Philadelphia where she studied with Claude Frank and Seymour Lipkin at the Curtis Institute of Music.