“Magnificent,” wrote Frank Daykin in the New York Concert Review about Taiwanese pianist Tzu-yi Chen’s solo debut at Carnegie Hall. “She displayed…not only technical command, beautiful tone, total artistic involvement, deep feeling, stylistic understanding, but most importantly, the feeling of spontaneity, even risk, that makes an evening truly memorable.” The Review praised her 2019 piano-duo recital with Lan-in Winnie Yang as “delightful” and a 2022 collaborative performance as “outstanding.”
Tzu-yi is on the artist roster of the New-York-based New Asia Chamber Music Society, appearing on its “Unforgettable Memories” CD, available on Apple Music. Her 2020 collaboration with the group at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery included works by Beethoven as well as compositions by the Taiwanese composers Shi-hui Chen and Ke-chia Chen and arrangements of Japanese folk songs.
Recent appearances include recitals in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, performances at national venues in Taiwan, and recitals at Bolzano Conservatory in Italy. She recently served as collaborative pianist for the Robert Spencer Concerto Competition in Virginia and the U.S. Army Orchestra's Young Artist Concerto Competition in Washington DC.
Tzu-yi’s upcoming engagements include a lecture on "Liszt and Re-enchantment: Beauty as a Portal to the Sacred" and a performance of Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus at the 2026 American Liszt Society Annual Conference. At home in Washington DC, Tzu-yi is a teacher and adjudicator, whose students have garnered more than 45 awards in regional and state-level competitions.
Tzu-yi holds the Premier Prix from the Paris Conservatory and two graduate degrees from the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany. She earned the Artist Diploma from Columbus State University, where she co-founded the International Friendship Ministries’ Arts Academy. In 2023, she completed her DMA at the University of Maryland, College Park, with a dissertation on "Departure, Conflict, and Rebirth in the Musical Language of Franz Liszt."