Performances with Mementos Music Group

Chia-Yi Chen, a native of Taiwan, earned both bachelor’s and master’s degree of piano performance at the University of Southern California under Bernadene Blaha and Norman Krieger, who is a pupil of Alfred Brendel. During her study in the United States, she received a Merit scholarship for her undergraduate degree. She served as a full-time accompanist and a member of the chamber music program of the school for a long time.  She won the first prize of the MTAC in Los Angeles in 1999, and Second Prize for the Los Angeles Liszt Competition in Concerto Division in 2002.

Chia-Yi Chen studied and performed at music festivals with Full Scholarship in the Banff Music Festival in 2001. She also attended the Aspen Music Festival in 1997 and 2003, the Wintergreen Music Festival and the Salzburg Music Festival.  In 2018, Ms Chen got an invitation to gave a piano solo performance in Coimbra World Piano Meeting opening concert in Portugal. During her studying process, she studied with John Perry, Rita Sloan, Daniel Lessner, Jean-David Coen, Kevin Fitz-Gerald, Gail Niwa, Victoria Mushkatkol, Sergei Dorensky, Andrei Diev, and Makoto Ueno.

After returning to Taiwan in 2005, Ms. Chen enrolled in several schools to teach students majored in Music namely Eternal-Life Christ College, New Taipei Municipal Senior High School, Kuangen Catholic High School. In addition to holding regular solo recitals, she is often invited as an accompanist at concerts in the National Recital Hall. More than once, she has been hired as a judge for the enrollment of music major applicants and music competitions such as Asian Aegean international music competition. She is a guest pianist at the Fluteman Chamber Orchestra. In 2018, she received an invitation from the “Opus Music and Art” organization, and spent two years touring a series of parent-child concerts. In 2019, she was invited by the “Alster Freundeskreis”organization, and gave a lecture on the title “effective piano practice methods for children”.  She is currently a member of the Trinity Trio with two other members from Taipei Symphony Orchestra.  

While continuing to perform, Ms. Chen is also committed to teaching. Many of her students won the international piano competition, such as The Royal International competition, Global Philharmonic Music Online Competition, Piara Japan Piano Competition, IAMPT-Grand Prix, International Association Professional Music Teacher Competition etc. And some of them were invited to perform at the Carnegie Hall in New York City.