Sandra Wright Shen (仙杜拉), a world-renowned concert pianist, was born in Taipei, Taiwan.
In 1996, she completed her Master of Music in piano performance and also served as an Ear-Training graduate teaching assistant to Peabody professor Clinton Adams.
She has performed in master classes with Jerome Lowenthal, André Watts, Lev Nauomov, and Rebecca Penneys and studied chamber music with Earl Carlyss.
Wright Shen's passion for chamber music took her to Germany and Austria during the summers of 1995–1998, where she worked with the Alban Berg Quartet, Jörg Demus, and Grant Johannesen.
She was invited to serve on the judge panel of the National MTNA South West division piano competitions in January 2005.