Multi-award-winning pianist-composer Zhen Chen has performed as a soloist and chamber music artist at prominent music venues in USA, Europe and China, such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Preston Bradley Hall of the Chicago Cultural Center, and China National Centre for Performing Arts. His live performances and recordings have been broadcasted by Chicago WFMT 98.7, Princeton WPRB 103.3, WCNY Classic FM. Mr. Chen has worked with prominent violinists Maxim Vengerov, Cho-Liang Lin, and instrumentalists of the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera in concert and recording engagements. His recording Brahms: The Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano in collaboration with Elmira Darvarova, former concertmaster of the Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera, received worldwide plaudits. Spain classical music magazine RITMO praised this recording as an “exceptional expressive flight to the height of classic interpretations of this [Brahms’] music.” Mr. Chen wears another hat as a performer-composer. His cross-culture and cross-genre composition works were crystallized in the albums ERGO: New Music for Piano and Chinese Folk Instruments (Navona/Naxos, 2017) and On & Between: New Music for Pipa and Western Ensembles (Navona/Naxos, 2018). The latter won the Gold Medal of Global Music Awards for Best Show top honor, Best Album, and Best Instrumentalists. Mr. Chen joined the piano and the chamber music faculty of Manhattan School of Music Precollege in 2022.