Award for HfMT alumna

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Anny Chen, Bachelor 2017 and Master 2019 in the violin class of Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender, won 1st prize in the "Concours International Léopold Bellan" competition

Founded in Paris in 1926, this internationally renowned competition is held in various categories that change every year (strings, piano, winds, singing, composition, chamber music and others). Outstanding prizewinners include Olivier Messiaen, Augustin Dumay, Anne Queffélec and Pascal Devoyon.

Artist biography
Cheerful, light-blooded, lively - the violinist Anny Chen has developed her artistic personality during many stations that have taken her from Vancouver to Hamburg via London. She was particularly influenced by her participation in the Perlman Music Program from 2010 to 2015, where she received lessons from the renowned violinist Itzahk 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 Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in Hamburg. She won the first prize and audience prize at the International "Leopold Bellan" Competition in Paris, the first prize at the "Elise Meyer" Competition in Hamburg, the third prize at the Shu-Te Sylvia Lee National Competition in Taiwan and the first prize and prize for the best interpretation of a concerto at the "Violin of the North" International Competition in Russia.

Solo performances and recitals have 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, Benedikt Klöckner, Claudio Bohoequez, Linus Roth and Menno van Delft, among others. She has performed at festivals such as the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival and the International Chamber Music Festival Ede, and has appeared as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, St. Peter's College Orchestra in Oxford, the Cambridge Graduates' Orchestra and the Finchley Chambers 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 Schaham 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.

She was a scholarship holder of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation from 2016 to 2018 and since 2017 Anny Chen has received a monthly scholarship 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; she currently plays a violin on Petrus Guarneris, Venice 1730 from the German Musical Instrument Fund.