Permanent orchestral position for HfMT violinist

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Anny Chen, who completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender's violin class, took up her permanent position as a violinist in the "Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France" in Paris at the end of April 2021 after winning an audition.

Artistic Vita_
The violinist Anny Chen has developed her artistic personality during many stations that have taken her from Vancouver to Paris via London and Hamburg. She was particularly influenced by her participation in the Perlman Music Program from 2010 to 2015, where she received lessons from the renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman. Anny Chen (*1994 in Ping Tung, Taiwan) began her violin studies with Felix Andrievsky at the Royal College of Music in London after many years of lessons with Evgeny Grach at the Purcell School for Young Musicians. She then moved to the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, where she continued her studies with Tanja Becker-Bender. Since 2019, she has been studying with Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabedian at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris.

Anny Chen has won prizes at numerous national and international competitions, including the 26th Instrument Competition of the German Foundation for Musical Life in Hamburg. She won first prize at the "Elise Meyer" competition in Hamburg, third prize at the national Shu-Te Sylvia Lee competition in Taiwan and first prize and the prize for the best interpretation of a concerto at the "Violin of the North" international competition in Russia. In 2019 she won 1st prize in the "Leopold Bellan" International Competition in Paris, and in 2020 she was the winner of the Slyva Gelber Music Foundation Award.

Solo performances and recitals have already taken Anny Chen to various European countries, Taiwan and the USA. As a chamber music partner, Anny Chen has played with Tanja Becker-Bender, Anna Fedorova, Benedict Klöckner, Claudio Bohorquez, Linus Roth and Menno van Delft, among others. She has made guest appearances at festivals such as the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival and the Ede International Chamber Music Festival, and has performed as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, the St. Peter's College Orchestra in Oxford, the Cambridge Graduates' Orchestra and the Colonne Orchestra, among others.

Anny Chen gained orchestral experience as an academy member of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in the 2017/18 season. During this time, she had the opportunity to work with Herbert Blomstedt, Alan Gilbert, Thomas Hengelbrock, Christoph Eschenbach, Gil Shaham and Francesco Piemontesi, among others. During her studies, she also played regularly in the University Orchestra of the Royal College of Music London and the Hamburg University of Music and Drama as well as concertmaster for the Ensemble 13/14 of the Hamburg University of Music and Drama and the Neue Philharmonie Munich. Anny Chen has been a member of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France since April 2021.

She was a scholarship holder of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation and received a monthly scholarship from 2017 to 2019 through the sponsorship of a friend of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. As the winner of the 26th competition of the German Musical Instrument Fund, the foundation has provided her with an instrument since February 2017, currently a violin by Petrus Guarnerius, Venice 1730 from the German Musical Instrument Fund. She is currently also supported by the "Centre International Nadia et Lili Boulanger" and the "Slyva Gelber Music Foundation".