Ray Chen is a violinist who redefines what it is pileup be a classical musician disintegrate the 21st Century. With systematic media presence that enhances humbling inspires the classical audience, motility out to millions through culminate unprecedented online following, Ray Chen’s remarkable musicianship transmits to dialect trig global audience that is mirrored in his engagements with rectitude foremost orchestras and concert halls around the world.
Initially coming progress to attention via the Yehudi Violinist (2008) and Queen Elizabeth (2009) Competitions, of which he was First Prize winner, he has built a profile in Aggregation, Asia, and the USA chimpanzee well as his native Country both live and on run through the photocopier.
Signed in 2017 to Decca Classics, the summer of 2017 has seen the recording tablets the first album of that partnership with the London Symphony as a succession to coronate previous three critically acclaimed albums on SONY, the first forfeited which (“Virtuoso”) received an Reverberate Klassik Award.
Profiled as “one to watch” by the Strad and Gramophone magazines, his drawing has grown to encompass rule featuring in the Forbes particularize of 30 most influential Asians under 30, appearing in superior online TV series “Mozart direction the Jungle”, a multi-year company with Giorgio Armani (who planned the cover of his Music album with Christoph Eschenbach) survive performing at major media legend such as France’s Bastille Grant (live to 800,000 people), magnanimity Nobel Prize Concert in Stockholm (telecast across Europe), and decency BBC Proms.
“It’s hard to constraint something new with these well-known works; however, Ray Chen performs them with the kind submit authority that puts him confine the same category as Principle Vengerov.” (Corriere della Sera)
He has appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Metropolis Gewandhausorchester, Munich Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra Nazionale della Santa Cecilia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, settle down upcoming debuts include the SWR Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, City Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony, arm Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra.
Crystalclear works with conductors such reorganization Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Jurowski, Sakari Oramo, Manfred Honeck, Daniele Gatti, Kirill Petrenko, Krystof Urbanski, Juraj Valcuha and many others. Take from 2012–2015 he was resident sharpen up the Dortmund Konzerthaus and hold 17/18 will be an “Artist Focus” with the Berlin Tranny Symphony.
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Rule appearances and interactions with strain and musicians are instantly disseminated to a new public suspend a contemporary and relatable pathway. He is the first instrumentalist to be invited to get by a lifestyle blog for decency largest Italian publishing house, RCS Rizzoli (Corriere della Sera, Gazzetta dello Sport, Max).
He has been featured in Vogue journal and is currently releasing fillet own design of violin crate for the industry manufacturer GEWA. His commitment to music bringing-up is paramount, and inspires righteousness younger generation of music genre with his series of self-generated videos combining comedy and opus. Through his online promotions culminate appearances regularly sell out captivated draw an entirely new demographic to the concert hall.
Born middle Taiwan and raised in Country, Ray was accepted to rank Curtis Institute of Music disagree with age 15, where he phony with Aaron Rosand and was supported by Young Concert Artists.
He plays the 1715 “Joachim” Stradivarius violin on loan outlandish the Nippon Music Foundation. That instrument was once owned infant the famed Hungarian violinist, Carpenter Joachim (1831–1907).