B.M., M.M. New England Conservatory of Music M.A., D.M.A. in Piano Performance email: gchien@leeuniversity.edu Assistant Professor of Music

Pianist Gloria Chien has been praised by Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe 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 has presented solo recitals at the Gardner Museum, Harvard Musical Association, the Monadnock Music Festival in New Hampshire, the Caramoor Festival in New York State, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She has appeared as a featured soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall under the baton of Maestro Keith Lockhart and Thomas Dausgaard. In addition, she has been soloist with the New England Conservatory Honors Orchestra under Maestro Sergiu Comissiona, and the NEC Youth Philharmonic conducted by Benjamin Zander. Ms. Chien was invited to travel with the Massachusetts delegation and former Governor William Weld to perform several concerts in Chile. Ms. Chien has attended the Verbier Music Festival in Switzerland in 1999, as well as the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA in 2001

In 1994, Ms. Chien won first prize in the Harry Dubbs Memorial Competition, the Harvard Musical Association Achievement Award, the New England Conservatory Preparatory School Concerto Competition, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Concerto Competition. In 1995, she placed second in the Fite Family National Piano Competition, as well as in the Oberlin International Piano Competition. She was the winner of the New England Conservatory Piano Department Concerto Competition in 1998, and has recently placed fifth at the 2000 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati. She was the third prize winner of the 2000 San Antonio International Piano Competition where she also received the prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work.

Ms. Chien's recent performances include a concerto performace with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, a solo recital at the Cortot Hall in Paris, as well as the Presidential Concert Series at the Lee University in Tennessee. She is currently a member of the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston as well as an assistant professor at the Lee University in Tennessee.

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 completed a masters degree and an undergraduate degree at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and is currently finishing her Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree. Her private teachers have included Russell Sherman and Wha-Kyung Byun.