Tai-Cheng Chen 陳泰成, Pianist
A native of Taiwan, Tai-Cheng Chen began playing the piano at the age of six; by the time he was nine, he had won his first piano competition inTaipei. Within the next two years, he placed first in a national Taiwanese piano competition and performed Mozart’s piano concerto with the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. At fifteen, he moved to Austria to attend the Vienna Musikhochschule. At age nineteen he not only took first prize in its internal piano competition, but also completed the school’s rigorous Concert Artist program—graduating with its highest honor of Unanimous Distinction. In the following year he won the prestigious Vienna International Music Festival Competition, in a performance that was televised throughout the world.
Thereafter, Tai-Cheng Chen moved to New York to attend The Juilliard School. While attending Juilliard, he won the Gina Bachauer Scholarship Award and the opportunity to play Bartok’s Third Piano Concerto with the Juilliard Philharmonic Orchestra. Shortly after earning his DMA degree from Juilliard, he returned to Taiwan to teach at Taipei NationalUniversity of the Arts.
Tai-Cheng Chen has given numerous international performances, including such venues as Lincoln Center, Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, and the Grosser Musikverein Saal in Vienna. As Professor of Music, Dr. Chen has inspired generations of students, many of whom have gone on to win national and international competitions.
鋼琴家陳泰成出生於台灣，自幼即展現非凡之音樂才華。九歲時，在台北市不分齡鋼琴比賽中榮獲冠軍；十一歲，復於全國音樂比賽中再度奪魁；是年，與台灣省立交響樂團合作演出莫札特鋼琴協奏曲，於台灣巡迴演出。自此，他就開始活躍於台北各個舞台及電視台攝影棚。十二歲，應邀至菲律賓演出，跨出其國際舞台之第一步。
十五歲，考入國立維也納音樂學院，未滿二十歲即獲得全體評審教授一致給予「最優異演奏」之殊榮畢業於該校。在這群英匯集之地，他以驚人的實力嶄露頭角，先後獲得「史蒂潘諾夫」、「維也納國際音樂節」比賽大獎。他的演奏並經由電視向世界各地轉播。
其後，陳泰成轉往美國，就讀於茱麗亞音樂學院。在紐約，他以精湛的琴藝贏得「吉娜‧巴考爾」鋼琴比賽，獲頒茱麗亞音樂學院全額獎學金，並贏得茱麗亞音樂學院協奏曲比賽，與茱麗亞愛樂管絃樂團在林肯中心合作演出。同時，復以最高分獲選紐約「國際藝術家比賽」，且於卡內基獨奏廳演出了一場極為成功的獨奏會。
赴笈歐美二十餘寒暑，嫡傳德奧樂派及俄國樂派精髓，演奏足跡遍及全球四大洲，其中包含了著名的「維也納愛樂廳」、「維也納音樂廳」，以及「紐約林肯中心」及「卡內基演奏廳」等。曾任教於國立台北藝術大學(原國立藝術學院)，門下多位學生在國內及國際比賽中榮獲獎項。目前定居於美國舊金山灣區。
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