Chieh-Chun (Anna) Chen was born in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. She is currently studying for her Doctoral Degree in Piano Performance at University of Iowa, with Dr. Alan Huckleberry. In 2016, she gave a solo performance at Taiwan’s National Concert Hall in Taipei, and in 2017 attended the World Piano Meeting festival in Coimbra, Portugal. In February 2019, she performed Eric Moe’s Grande Etude Brillante in the Red Note Festival at Illinois State University. She is the winner of 2019 ISU Concerto-Aria Competition and performed Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.1 with the university Symphony Orchestra. She also won the first prize of Illinois State Music Teacher Association Collegiate Piano Solo South Competition in 2019. During the pandemic in 2021, she recorded a CD of songs and chamber works by Stella Lerner with University of Iowa faculty members. She was honored to be awarded the first prize in the Ad Libitum International Piano Competition, the Franz Schubert International Music Competition, and the Vivaldi International Music Competition in the Concerto category in 2022-2023. This fall, she enters her first year at Southwestern Community College as Piano and Music Theory Professor.
You can find Chieh-Chun’s 2023 Spring Music Competition piano performance here.
You can find Chieh-Chun’s 20th Century Music Competition 2024 piano performance here.