Chen Pi-hsien

When she was nine, she was sent to Cologne to continue her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Hans-Otto Schmidt-Neuhaus, where she received her diploma as classical pianist in 1970.

In the following years she pursued her studies with Hans Leygraf and took part in piano courses given by Wilhelm Kempff, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Claudio Arrau, and Géza Anda.

Conductors, with whom she has worked, were Bernard Haitink, Paul Sacher, Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Marek Janowski, Hans Zender, Peter Eötvös and others.

She was partner of Hermann Baumann, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Augustin Dumay, Alyssa Park, Wolfgang Meyer and Julius Berger.

Her increasing interest and engagement for contemporary music grew in the cooperation with composers as John Cage, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Kurtág.