Photo: Dario AcostaStella Chen
USA
In 2019 she won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, having chosen Schubert's C major Fantasie for the recital round.
- Queen Elisabeth Competition winner, 2019
- Gramophone Young Artist of the Year 2023
- Avery Fisher Career Grant, 2020
- The 1720 'General Kyd' Stradivarius
- Juilliard faculty
“Her graceful, singing line, gleaming tone, and breathtaking use of pianissimo made the Tully Hall crowd sit bolt upright.”
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Earlier she had become the youngest-ever prizewinner of the Menuhin Competition. She studied psychology at Harvard and music at New England Conservatory, spent four years at Kronberg Academy with Mihaela Martin, took her doctorate at Juilliard and now teaches there. Her debut album, Stella × Schubert, made her Gramophone's Young Artist of the Year in 2023.
The second pairs the Beethoven and Barber concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. She has debuted with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony and the Israel Philharmonic, and played the Vienna Musikverein and the Berlin Philharmonie. She plays the 1720 'General Kyd' Stradivarius.
In June 2027 she makes her Oregon Symphony debut in Tchaikovsky's concerto.
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