The Austrian-Taiwanese pianist and pedagogue Heinz Chen (born 1983 in Vienna) was artistic director of the Beigang International Music Festival between 2006 and 2009.
Heinz Chen studied piano playing at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with Wolfgang Watzinger, at the Sibelius Academy with Erik T. Tawaststjerna and at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold with Anatol Ugorski.
With Austrian violinist Roland Hölzl he recorded a CD with works by Fritz Kreisler.
Heinz Chen made efforts to enrich the cultural life in Yunlin County, Taiwan, the place of origin of his family.
The concept of the festival contained arts events as well as intercultural activities, which Heinz Chen partly adopted from his experiences from the European Youth Parliament, which he attended in 1999 in Weimar and Hämeenlinna.