Masterclass: Hung-Kuan Chen

Join us for a musical masterclass as Hung-Kuan Chen of Julliard mentors the rising the stars of contemporary piano.

Pianist Hung-Kuan Chen was born in Taipei and raised in Germany. His early studies fostered strong roots in Germanic Classicism tempered with the sensibility of Chinese philosophy. The winner of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the recipient of an Avery Fisher Grant, Chen has collaborated with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach and Hans Graf, and his colleagues include the Tokyo and Shanghai string quartets, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinists Cho-Liang Lin and Roman Totenberg, clarinetist David Shifrin, and pianist Tema Blackstone.

Art of Piano is supported by Heather Edwards and Artemisia Foundation, Tema Blackstone and Hung-Kuan Chen.

Presented by: Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Genres: Voice, Strings, Orchestra/Large Ensemble, Chamber Ensembles