Gloria Chien
Piano
Pianist Gloria Chien has been chosen by the Boston Globe
as one of the Superior Pianists of the year, "who appears
to excel in everything." Richard Dyer praised her for
"a wondrously rich palette of colors, which she mixes
with dashing bravado and with an uncanny precision of calibration…Chien's
performance had it all, and it was fabulous."
Ms. Chien made her orchestral debut at the age of 16 with
the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has appeared
as a soloist under the batons of Sergiu Comissiona, Keith
Lockhart, Thomas Dausgaard, Irwin Hoffman, Benjamin Zander,
Robert Bernhardt and Felix Chen. She has won awards from the
World Piano Competition, the Harvard Musical Association,
as well as the San Antonio International Piano Competition,
where she also received the prize for the Best Performance
of the Commissioned Work. Ms. Chien has presented solo recitals
at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Harvard Musical Association,
Sanibel Musical Festival, Caramoor Musical Festival, Salle
Cortot in Paris, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan.
She was also invited to travel with the Massachusetts delegation
and former Governor William Weld to perform several concerts
in Chile.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Chien has been the resident
pianist with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston since 2000.
The Boston Herald praised her for playing "phenomenally."
Her recent CD with violinist Joanna Kurkowicz featuring music
of Grazyna Bacewicz was released on Chandos Records. The
International Record Review wrote, "[the violinist]
could ask for no more sensitive or supportive an accompanist
than Gloria Chien," and Harmonie Magazine extolled,
"but it would be unfair not to mention the pianist, who
is accompanying the soloist in an absolutely responsive, impressive
and confident way. She is more than an accompanist - rather,
she is an equivalent partner to the soloist." The
Strad praised her for "super performances…accompanied
with great character." Ms. Chien has participated in
such festivals as Music Academy of the West, Verbier Music
Festival and Music@Menlo, where she was invited back to be
a chamber music coach in 2007. Her recent performances include
concerts with the Daedalus and Formosa String Quartets, Duo
recitals with pianist Ning An, and the Beethoven Violin Cycle
recitals with violinist James Buswell, which were featured
live on Boston's WGBH Radio.
Gloria Chien began playing the piano at the age of five in
her native Taiwan, where she won both divisions of the National
Piano Competition before coming to the United States when
she was fourteen. She has a doctor of musical arts degree,
a master's degree and an undergraduate degree from the New
England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Her teachers have
included Russell Sherman and Wha-Kyung Byun. In the fall of
2004, Ms. Chien was named Assistant Professor of Music at
the Lee University in Cleveland, TN.
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