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Jenny Q Chai

1st prize winner of the Keys to the Future Contemporary Solo Piano Festival and the DAAD Arts and Performance award in 2010, Jenny Q Chai is an active pianist specializing in contemporary music. She has premiered Life Sketches by Nils Vigeland in Orléans, France; Exercise in Deism by John Slover and Intimate Rejection by Ashley Fu- Tsun Wang in New York and Kreutzer Sonata by Frederick Rzewski in Ghent, Belgium, where she was given the Logos Award for the best and the most revelation performance of 2008, among others. Ms. Chai introduced the concept prepared piano to a Chinese audience with the world premiere of Mallet Dance by John Slover in Shanghai Concert Hall.

Jenny Q Chai has performed in major concert halls in the U.S. including Carnegie Hall with Curtis Symphony Orchestra under Andrea Previn, Steinway Hall and Rockefeller Center in New York, Kimmel Center, Academy of music and Field's Hall in Philadelphia, Kneisle Hall in Maine, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and Kravis Center in Florida. She has also toured in China, Korea and Europe extensively; having played in Darmsdadt International Festival for New Music, The Gaudeamus New Music Festival, Amsterdam, The Logos Tetrahedron Concert Hall, Ghent, Palau de la Música, Barcelona, Shanghai Grand Theater, Shanghai and Rodin Museum, Seoul among many others. Jenny Q Chai is an active competitor in the circuit of international piano competitions. Her awards include Logos Award 2008, Kil's International Piano Competition in Sweden; Steinway Young Artist International Competition and Five Towns Art & Music Foundation International Piano Competition in New York, among many others.

Jenny Q Chai has been covered on major medium throughout the U.s. and China and Europe, those include Time Out New York, Valladolid Daily New, Cologne Daily News, SHM Daily, Shanghai Morning Post, Shanghai Evening Post, Shanghai Culture; magazines such as Music Friends and China Women; broadcasting interviews on contemporary music and concert reviews on music channel of Chinese National TV Station and SMG Radio Station. Her performances of contemporary music have been broadcasted in Italy, Germany, China and the U.S.

Ms. Chai has earned her Bachelor's degree at Curtis Institute of Music and her Master's degree at Manhattan School of Music where she is a D.M.A. candidate and a teacher since 2008. From 2009, Ms. Chai has been working with contemporary pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Her future engagements this year include lectures and master classes at Beijing Central Conservatory of Music and Shanghai Music Conservatory, tours in Norway, the Netherlands and the U.S., performances with Ensemble Musikfabrik and Ensemble 20/21 in Germany. In 2010 Ms. Chai has released albums on both Deutschlandfunk and Arpaviva Records.