The Austrian- Taiwanese pianist and pedagogue Heinz Chen (born 1983 in Vienna) was artistic director of the

Beigang International Music Festival The Beigang International Music Festival () is a project of the Beigang Philharmonic Association (Chinese: 雲林縣北港愛樂協會) and takes place in Beigang, Yunlin County, Taiwan. Since its inception in 2006, the festival has grown and dev ...

between 2006 and 2009. Today he lives in Berlin, Germany. Heinz Chen studied piano playing at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with Wolfgang Watzinger, at the Sibelius Academy with Erik T. Tawaststjerna and at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold with

Anatol Ugorski Anatol Ugorski (in , born 28 September 1942 in Rubtsovsk, Altai Krai, Soviet Union) is a classical pianist of Russian origin who lives in Germany. Biography Anatol Ugorski was born into a poor background and is the eldest of five children. In ...

. He also studied composition and

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at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He was awarded in 2002 with the Bösendorfer-scholarship, 2006 with the first prize at the Helmi-Vesa piano competition in Helsinki and 2008 with the ''Special prize for his stage charm'' at the international piano competition in

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, Greece. With Austrian violinist Roland Hölzl he recorded a CD with works by

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. Heinz Chen made efforts to enrich the cultural life in Yunlin County, Taiwan, the place of origin of his family. In 2006 Heinz Chen took over the ''Beigang Music Festival'' in Beigang, Taiwan, and raised it to the

, which he led as

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between 2006 and 2009. The concept of the festival contained arts events as well as intercultural activities, which Heinz Chen partly adopted from his experiences from the

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, which he attended in 1999 in Weimar and Hämeenlinna. He has been performing with Latvian soprano

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. Their work was documented by Latvian radio.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Heinz 1983 births Living people Austrian pianists Taiwanese classical pianists Musicians from Vienna Hochschule für Musik Detmold alumni 21st-century classical pianists