VIOLIN 2019 : First Prize
Stella Chen studied at the Juilliard School under Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho and at the New England Conservatory under Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried. She also studied psychology at Harvard. She has won prizes at the Yehudi Menuhin Competition and the Tibor Varga Competition and was awarded the Robert Levin Prize. Stella Chen has played at the Ravinia Steans Institute, in the Mozarteum Salzburg Academy, in the Music@ Menlo International Program, and at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Lübeck. She has worked with, among others, Itzhak Perlman, Robert Levin, Donald Weilerstein, Catherine Cho, Miriam Fried, Hsin‑Yun Huang, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Federico Cortese, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Matthew Lipman, Roger Tapping, Paul Biss, and Paul Katz. Stella Chen has performed with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Bach Society Orchestra, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and the Boston Youth Symphony.
Teachers
2017- : Li Lin
2017- : Catherine Cho
2011- : Donald Weilerstein
2014 - 2016 : Miriam Fried
2010 - 2011: Itzhak Perlman
Degrees
2016 - : DMA, The Juilliard School
2016 : MM, New England Conservatory
Concerts
2018: SOPAC, South Orange Performing Arts Center, Recital with Tomer Gewirtzman
2018: Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, New Juilliard Ensemble, The New Juilliard Ensemble, Joel Sachs
2018: Chateau d'Oex, Le Bois qui Chante, Recital with Kristina ROhn
2018: Chester Meeting House, Robbie Collomore Recital Series, Recital with Tomer Gewirtzman
2018: Altenburg Castle, Boston Youth Symphony, BYS, Federico Cortese2016: Paine Hall, Bach Society Orchestra, Bach Society Orchestra, Sasha Scolnik-Brower
2017: Sion, Switzerland, Sion Festival, Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne, Gabor Takacs-Nagy
2016: The Academy of Arts and Letters, Cambridge, The Academy of Arts and Letters, Cambridge, Recital with Jayoung Kim
2014: Sanders Theatre, Israel, Jordan, Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Federico Cortese
Competitions
2017: 2nd, Audience, Commissioned Work, Tibor Varga International Competition
2015: Winner, Robert Levin Prize
2008: 4th, Menuhin International Violin Competition Senior Category
2006: 5th, Menuhin International Violin Competition Junior Category