Bobby Chen is a Malaysian pianist. He has been praised by the ''

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'' newspapers and was described by ''International Piano Magazine'' as "an armour-clad player of complete technique, a thinking musician, a natural Romantic. Young bloods come no better". Chen has performed as soloist under conductors Mathias Bamert, Maximiliano Valdes,

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, and Pierre-Andre Valade and concerti with the

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, Warsaw Sinfonia,

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and

Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO; ms, Orkestra Filharmonik Malaysia) is a Malaysian orchestra based in Kuala Lumpur. The orchestra is resident at the Petronas Philharmonic Hall (Dewan Filharmonik Petronas). It is one of Asia's leading ...

. Bobby is the founder of Overseas Masters Winter Piano Academy (OMWPA), which established in December 2010.

Education

A graduate of the

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and the

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with Ruth Nye and

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, Chen appeared three times as soloist at London's

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, and performed at

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's Fazioli Hall,

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, London's

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and

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, Singapore's

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and

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's Dewan Petronas at the Twin Towers. Festival appearances include the South Bank Prokofiev Festival and Worcester Three Choirs Festival,

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's Musica Nova Contemporary Music Festival and

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's Lidköping Music Festival. He graduated from Royal Academy of Music in London with First Class Honours and winning eight awards including Best Final Recital, Best Overseas Pupil and Best Royal Overseas League.

Recordings

Chen has made live broadcasts for

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and Pianoforte Chicago (USA), and his six commercial recordings include two solo CDs for Jaques Samuel Recordings, a recording for the Cello Classics label with cellist

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, a solo piano disc for SOMM Recordings and piano trio recordings for Illuminate Records and Toccata Classics.

References

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