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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Degree Recital: Chi-Hui Yen, Piano Saturday, April 13, 2013 Born in 1991 in Taipei, Taiwan, Chi-Hui Yen began playing the piano at the age of four. Her teachers included Rolf-Peter Wille and Ming-Hui Lin. Currently she is in her fifth year studying with Melvin Chen and Peter Serkin at The Bard College Conservatory of Music. She is also pursuing a B.A degree in Economics at Bard College. In 2002, as the youngest competitor that year, she won the first prize in the Taipei International Chopin Piano Competition. In the same year, she was awarded the first prize in the Mauron Paolo Monopli International Piano Competition. The following year, she made her solo debut at Taipei Zhongshan Hall after winning the Young Artists Concerto Competition in 2002. In 2009, Yen won The Bard College Conservatory of Music's Annual Concerto Competition with her performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.1 and performed on two subscription concerts with American Symphony Orchestra in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in fall 2010. Last summer, she was selected to participate in the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. After the festival, she went on a study abroad program in Central European University taking grad-level coursework and Liszt Academy of Music studying with Andras Kemenes in Hungary. The master classes she has participated in include those taught by Stephen Kovacevich, Ferenc Rados, Andras Kemenes, Piotr Paleczny, Chen Pi-Hsien, Ning An, Richard Goode, Wen-Yu Shen, Martin Vojtisek, and Francesco Monopoli. Location: Olin Hall Sponsor: Bard College Conservatory of Music Contact: Tricia Reed. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-752-2380 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/news/events/