Pianist Hanchien Lee is widely regarded as one of the rising stars of the new generation of pianists. Since her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age sixteen, she has appeared as a recitalist and chamber musician in the US and abroad at venues such as the Steinway Hall in New York, Verizon hall in Philadelphia, Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, Centro Cultural del Antiguo, Colegiata de San Juan Bautista in Spain and Convention Center in Taipei.
Ms. Lee has also performed as a guest artist of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and at the Muhlenberg College Piano Series. She has performed with the American Elite youth orchestra, Plainfield Symphony, Taiwan National Orchestra and Poland’s Capella Cracovienses Chamber Orchestra.
Hanchien Lee is the recipient of the prestigious Chi-Mei Scholarship and has won top prizes at the Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition, first prize at the Russel C. Wonderlic Piano Competition and Yamaha Piano Competition.
As a chamber musician, Ms. Lee has performed in numerous festivals including Sarasota, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Van Cliburn Piano Institute, and the Music Academy of the West. She is also a member of the prize-winning quartet that was winner of the Yale School of Music Chamber Music Competition and performed with them at Stony Brook University and Montana University, where she also conducted a master class.
Hanchien Lee made her solo piano debut at the age of seven at the Cultural Center in Taipei, Taiwan. She was accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music at age eleven where she studied with Eleanor Sokoloff and Claude Frank. Following graduation from Curtis, Ms. Lee continued her studies at Yale University with Claude Frank, earning both a Master’s Degree and an Artists’ Diploma. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University where she is working with Boris Slutsky.Ms. Lee has also studied with such esteemed pianists as Gary Graffman, Richard Goode, Jerome Lowenthal and Fou T’song.
