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Gwhyneth Chen
gwhyneth_chen.jpg (13209 bytes) Ms. Gwhyness Chen won the first prize of Ivo Pogorelich International Piano Competition at age of 23, winning $100,000, which is the biggest cash prize in the world for the piano competitions. Ms. Chen was born in Taiwan and emigrated to the United States in 1980. Today, Ms. Chen is a leading Chinese musical figure and in 1995, she was included in The One Hundred Most Successful Chinese People. Her performance  includes performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zagreb Philharmonic, Augusta Symphony, Greenville Symphony, Miami Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, Kyushu Symphony of Japan, Taiwan National Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony, Moscow State Philharmony, Pasadena Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Los Angeles Pops Orchestra, Rutgers Festival Orchestra, and Fort Worth Symphony. Gwhyneth Chen currently resides in New York where she received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School.
Visit Website at: www.musicalonline.com/chen/

PRESS QUOTES
"... she is too good to be true." - Ivo Pogorelich, 1993

"Ms. Chen will never stop enchanting.. withthe impetuosity and hypnotic beauty of her recitals." - Abel Knezevic, The Miami Herald, 1997

"...a technically flawless, relentlessly exciting performance (of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini)." - Wayne Lee Gay, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1998

"It (Grieg's A minor Piano Concerto) cannot do without lyricism, and based on this performance, Chen's first strength is the lyric fluidity of her playing." Susan Bliss, Los Angeles Times, 1995

"Power and elegance are the two most striking traits of Ms. Chen." Peter Dobrin, Phila. Inquirer, 1995

"Chen was heard in Bad Worishofen in a magnificent evening of Piano Music." Bad Worishofen Rundschau, 1995

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Performance by Gwhyneth Chen
Petrouchka by Igor Stravinsky
Rachmaninoff Concert No.3 Complete (4.05mg)
Rachmaninoff Concert No.3 Danse russe (1.8mg)
Rachmaninoff Concert No.3 Chez Petrouchka (3.3mg)
Rachmaninoff Concert No.3 La semaine grasse (2.3)

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S. Rachmaninoff
Concerto No. 3 in D minor Op.28

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Rachmaninoff Concert No.3 First Movment
Rachmaninoff Concert No.3 Second Movement
Rachmaninoff Concert No.3 Third Movement

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Concerto Repertoire
Mozart
Piano Concerto No.24, K491
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.2 Op.19

Piano Concerto No.4 Op.58

Piano Concerto No.5 Op.73
Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No.1, Op.25
Chopin
Piano Concerto No.1, Op.11

Piano Concerto No.1, Op.21
Schumann
Piano Concerto Op.54
Liszt
Piano Concerto No.1
Brahms
Piano Concerto No.1, Op.15
Tschaikowsky
Piano Concerto No.1, Op.23
Grieg
Piano Concerto Op.16
Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No.2, Op.18

Piano Concerto No.3, Op.30 - Sample recording

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43
Prokofieff
Piano Concerto No.2, Op.16

Piano Concerto No.3, Op.26 - Sample recording
Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No.1, Op.35

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