Chen Pi-hsien

Chen Pi -hsien, Chinese陈 必先/陈 必先, Pinyin Chén Bixian, (* 1950 in Taiwan ) is a Sino- German pianist.

You came at the age of 9 years to Cologne, where she was admitted to the piano class of Hans -Otto Schmidt -Neuhaus. Later she studied at the Academy of Music and Drama Hanover Hans Leygraf. At age 21, she won the first prize at the International ARD Music Competition in Munich. He also won the first prize at the Schoenberg and Bach Competition in Rotterdam and Washington DC She performs at all major stages in Europe, Asia and America. Where a special interest in new music. CD recordings she made, inter alia, with works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Arnold Schoenberg, Jean Barraqué and York Höller. From 1983 to 2004 Pi -hsien Chen was a professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. Since the summer semester 2004, she teaches in the same position at the Musikhochschule Freiburg.