Born 1985 in Guangdong, China, Jie Chen has rapidly established herself as a mature musician at a young age with “broad technica mastery, colortul music imagination and the ability to communicate and move the audience,” according to the Star Tribune.

She started playing the piano at age four and was accepted into the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory when she was eight. She moved to the United States when she was 13 to study with Claude Frank and Seymour Lipkin at the renowned Curtis Institute on a full scholarship.

Chen’s recitals have attracted rave reviews, such as her major orchestral debut in 2001 with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch, performing the Rachmaninoff Second Concerto. The First Prize Winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, she gathered numerous other awards, including the Second International Piano-e Competition, the Washington International and the Missouri Southern International competitions, giving her increasing exposure and growing concert engagements.

Her US concerts include Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center of Philadelphia and the Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center. In Europe, she played with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the San Remo Sinfonica in Italy, the Israel Philharmonic, the Sinfonia Varsovia of Poland, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid, and many more. Chen is an avid chamber music player and has collaborated with Aviv Quartet of Israel, Takacs Quartet of Hungary and Ysaye Quartet of France.

In 2006, the Curtis Institute awarded her with the Festorazzi Prize for Best Pianist of the Year. She graduated from Curtis and is now continuing her studies under Jerome Rose at Mannes College of Music in New York.