CHINA STAGE

Chen Junyan, piano, began studying piano at the age of six, under Professor Weiling Chen at the Middle School of Shanghai Conservatory. She is now in her final year of undergraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Professor Joanna MacGregor. Chen Junyan is the winner of numerous awards. At the City of Vigo International Piano Competition, she won four awards – the Silver Medal, the People’s Choice Award, the Best Spanish Composition Performance Award, and the City Award as the youngest and only female competitor in the Final. She is a prize winner of all the piano categories at the Osaka International Music Competition, as well as of the prestigious Osaka Prefecture Governor’s Award and of the Award of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. As a soloist, Chen Junyan has played across China, as well as in Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Spain in such prestigious venues such as the Wigmore Hall, the London Steinway Hall, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall, among others. She has collaborated with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra and the XinZhu Symphony Orchestra. Chen Junyan has also performed Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner.