I-Ting
Chen
was born in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan in 1986. She received her first piano lessons at the age of five and received a sound piano education at the music school in Tainan, Taiwan continuing with concert studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. During her studies with Alexander Jenner, Heinz Medjimorec and Noel Flores, she also received valuable impulses at master classes given by Karl- Heinz Kämmerling and Andrzej Jasinski.
She has won several national and international competition prizes, including the 1st prize at the Taiwan National Student Competition of Music (1998) and a second prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Taipei (1999).
As a pianist and accompanist, she has participated in many master classes and competitions (including the Cello Competition in Liezen, International Competition "Anna Kull") as well as in concerts in Switzerland, Turkey, Italy, Poland and Austria.
Since 2012, I-Ting has been working at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz as a repetiteur at the Institute for String Instruments.