Carnegie Hall Debut Slated for Oct. 4, 2004 Missouri Southern News Bureau FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 21, 2004 Contact: MSIPC Office (417) 625-9684 E-Mail: News Bureau Voice: (417) 625.9399 FAX: (417) 625.3142 |
 JOPLIN,
MO (SNS) Missouri Southern International Piano Competition Announces New
York trip to Carnegie Debut The grand prize winner of the 2004 Missouri
Southern International Piano Competition, Jie Chen from China, (pictured
at left) was awarded a Carnegie Recital Hall debut in addition to a
$10,000 cash prize at Missouri Southern State University this April.
The Carnegie debut is scheduled for Oct. 4, 2004. The
Competition is planning a New York excursion that will include, in
addition to the debut recital, the theater, sight-seeing and shopping in
New York City.
The trip is scheduled for Oct. 1 - 5. The group will depart from
Springfield, and stay at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel in the
heart of Times Square. Group activities will include a Saturday brunch;
a Broadway show and a dinner cruise in the New York harbor.
The Carnegie debut recital, to be held at Weill Recital Hall at
Carnegie Hall, is sponsored by The Empire District Electric Company of
Joplin. The reception following the recital is hosted by the Missouri
Southern International Piano Competition.
Jie Chen, the grand prize winner of the 10th Missouri Southern
International Piano Competition in 2004, is currently studying at The
Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was born in 1985 in
Guangdong, China, and attended the Attached Elementary School of the
Shanghai Conservatory of Music before moving to the US in 1998.
Over the past few years, Miss Chen has won numerous awards
including first prizes in the 2001 Five Town Young Artist Competition in
New York and the 2003 Piano Arts National Concerto and Solo Competition
in Milwaukee, 3rd Prize in the 8th Sanremo Classico International
Pianoforte Competition in Italy in 2003, and the Grand Prize in the 2nd
Piano-E-Competition in Minneapolis, 2004.
She has given performances throughout the world, including the
Venison Hall in the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, Steinway Hall in
New York, Hewlett Public Library in Long Island, Leipzig Hochschule fur
Musik und Theater, The Mendelssohn House in Leipzig, the Sanremo Opera
Theatre, and the Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis.
She has attended Master classes conducted by Leon Fleisher,
Peter Frankl, and Rudolf Buchbinder. Among the orchestras she has
collaborated with include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pottstown Symphony
Orchestra, The Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, the Sanremo Sinfonica
Orchestra, and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Her performances have been broadcasted by the Italian National
Television Network “RAIUNO”, The German radio “MDR”,
and the Minnesota Public Radio. In addition to this Carnegie Recital
Hall solo debut in October 2004 she will also give numerous recitals
throughout the country in the upcoming season. Her past teacher at The
Curtis Institute of Music was Seymour Lipkin, and she will continue her
studies there with Claude Frank.
For details on the Carnegie trip to New York City, please call
the MSIPC office at 417-625-9755.
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