Han Chen

A fearless performer with seemingly limitless imagination and possessed with uncanny energy, GRAMMY Award-nominated pianist Han Chen brings a Romantic sensibility to his interpretations of scores old and new. Alex Ross, who selected Mr. Chen’s Naxos disc of the Ligeti Études and Capriccios as a “Notable Classical Recording of 2023,” wrote: “The Taiwanese pianist Han Chen, a noted interpreter of the Ligeti Études and other modernist repertory, has made a blistering album of the [Liszt] opera transcriptions.” (The New Yorker, September 4, 2023) Mr. Chen’s musical vision is manifest in his five solo Naxos albums, focusing on Franz Liszt, Anton Rubinstein, Thomas Adès, and György Ligeti. Mr. Chen has appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic String Quartet, Calgary Philharmonic, Lansing Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Lexington Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, and China Symphony Orchestra.