User:ChenChiuYu

One of the most influential pianist in the new generation, the first Taiwanese pianist graduating from The Russian Gnesin Academy of Music with 2 doctoral diplomas (piano performing and chamber ensemble performing), the Taiwan-born pianist Chen,Chiu-Yu started his musical education at 5 ages and studied with such celebrating masters of The Russian Piano School like Boris Lvov ,Victor Merzhanov and Mikhail Petukhov ,Irina Anastasieva, Maria Gambarian, Marina Kravetz ,Vladimir Tropp and Alexei Skavronsky. At the ages of 27, he completed his musical education and return to his Motherland for lots of concert tours. During his education in Russia (1999-2008)-first in Tambov State Rachmaninov Institute of Music, than in The Russian Gnesin Academy of Music (Moscow),Mr. Chen, Chiu-Yu has hold lots of concerts in lots of culture place of Russia- musical school, library, museum, concert hall…He has took the premier of A. Scriabin’s “the poem of fire-Prometheus ” with the Tambov symphony orchestra under the general director Mr. Dmitry Vasiliev. Mr. Chen,Chiu-Yu is also the regular guest of Tambov summer international musical festival where he performed from 1999-2003. After getting the Master Degree in The Russian Gnesin Academy of Music (2005), Mr. Chen,Chiu-Yu has started his international career: he took part at The Pyrenees piano festival (2005), performed in Madrid (“Joaquín Rodrigo” Concert Hall), Genoa (concert hall of Paganini conservatory), Cagliari(concert hall of Palestrina conservatory). Besides, he also regularly holds concerts in Moscow. From 2007, Mr.Chen, Chiu-Yu has started his regular concert tour in Finland. He held such “thematic” concert tours like “concert tribute to the 210’s anniversary of Schubert’s birth”(in September, in Kouvola, Imatra, Savolinaa, Varkaus and Lapua); “memory concert for the 50’anniversary of Sibelius’s death and the 90’s anniversary of Finnish independency ”(in October, in Varkaus, Lapua, Imatra and Hyvinkaa) In March 2008 Mr. Chen, Chiu-Yu held a memory concert for the 115’s anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s death in Varkaus. In the same year, after his returning to Motherland, from September to October he held the same concert “The autumn song- the memory concert for the 115’s anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s death” in 9 cities of his home country-Taichung. From then on, the pianist’s concert career is solidly contacted with his beloved home country. In April 2009, he held “School Musical Festival”, where he held 4 concerts in elementary and junior high schools. In May 2009, being invited by Tachia Taokas Festival-which is one of the most important culture festival in Taiwan, he held “Mother’s Day Concert”. In July 2009, being invited by Taichung country government, holding summer musical festival every year, in the duration of 2 days, Mr. Chen Chiu-Yu has held 2 recitals, 6 lectures, and 6 master classes. In this festival, he has shown all the history of The Russian Piano School (from Glinka, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Glazunov, Liadov, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, and Scriabin) for public. In October, Mr. Chen.Chiu-Yu held “Taiwan’s Retrocession Day Concert” in Tachia Taokas Festival. Pianist Chen,Chiu-Yu has a large repertoire which includes various period(baroque classic, romantic, and contemporary ) and nations( Russian, Finnish, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Taiwanese).Now Mr. Chen,Chiu-Yu continues his “thematic” concert tours and plan to hold world concert tours for celebration of the 240’s anniversary of Beethoven’s Birth in Aprli 2010.