Eden Chen

Pianist Eden Chen has performed in major concert halls across Europe, North America, and Asia, “enthralling audiences with fluid performances and fingers that dance upon, rather than play, the piano” (Leeds Living). Recognized internationally by leading classical institutions, Eden channels his distinctive musicianship toward synthesizing wonder and unity from fragments of culture across today’s multipolar world.

Eden’s 2025–26 season features his orchestral debut at Carnegie Hall with the Chamber Orchestra of New York, performing Liszt’s Malediction. In 2025, he completed a month-long residency in Saudi Arabia, collaborating with Culture Minister Prince Badr bin Farhan on the creation of the kingdom’s first nationwide music education initiative and teaching members of the royal family. He was invited to perform at Istanbul’s Atatürk Cultural Center in a series broadcast on Turkish National Television, returned as Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Centre, and appeared in Geneva and Easton under the presentation of Gabriela Montero. That season, he received the Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship to the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel.

A graduate of The Juilliard School under Hung-Kuan Chen, Eden earned both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, receiving the Juilliard Career Advancement Fellowship - its highest commencement prize. He is an alum of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation and has appeared as guest artist at the Leeds International Piano Competition Festival, Banff Centre, and the Grammy Salute to Classical. His performances and interviews have been featured by NPR Tiny Desk Concerts, Isabel Leonard, and Pianist Magazine. Eden has recorded with Lang Lang for Deutsche Grammophon and performed alongside him at JBLFest, the City of Shenzhen’s Exposition in New York, and the Swiss Alps Classics in Andermatt.

Eden’s current projects interweave cultural memory, literature, and technology. His forthcoming debut album reimagines Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin through original Ryuichi Sakamoto arrangements, exploring the transformation of memory and time. He curated five poems by Bert Meyers for “Lullaby” and “Signature,” two new works by composer A Bu premiered with pianist–soprano Chelsea Guo at the Kennedy Center. In Paradise Lost, Eden combined Milton’s epic with Liszt’s Sonata and the surrealist art of Pablo Auladell, creating a concert experience of mythic descent and transcendence.

Eden has performed at Wigmore Hall, Stern Auditorium, Pritzker Pavilion, and Weill Recital Hall, and continues to develop projects that fuse performance, storytelling, and cultural imagination.

Eden Chen is a Young Steinway Artist.