Pi-Chin Chien & Adrian Oetiker
Biography Pi-Chin Chien & Adrian Oetiker
Pi-Chin Chien
is a sought-after, internationally active soloist and chamber musician. She has performed in major concert venues around the world, including New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Berlin Philharmonic and Konzerthaus as well as Tonhalle Zurich. Pi-Chin Chien has performed and recorded world premieres of a number of violoncello concertos and chamber music works, including several compositions dedicated to her. As a soloist she appears on CDs with, among others, David Zinman, Ruben Gazarian and Wen-Pin Chien, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London, the Krakow Philharmonic, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra and the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra.
In 2015 Pi-Chin Chien enjoyed great success with her album “Taiwan Rhapsody”, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London and released by Sony Classical, as well as the album "Tea for Two Cellos" (Solo-Musica), released in 2019. Current albums are "Strings on the Move" (2020), as well as the premiere recording of the complete work for cello and piano by the Swiss late-romantic composer Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (former professor at the Geneva Conservatory and founder of the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze), which was released 2022.
In 2021 the music which she recorded for the film "A Letter to A'ma" by Hui-Ling Chen won two prizes for the "best film music" at the international independent film festivals "Les Rimbauds du Cinema" and "SMR13" in France.
Pi-Chin Chien performed at the Kaiser-Otto Medal award ceremony in honor of the late former German President Richard von Weizsäcker, and in 2016, already for the second time, at the renowned concert series at Taiwan’s Presidential Palace on invitation of the President of Taiwan. She is the artistic director of the “Swiss Music Night” concert series in Taiwan and of the “Confluence” Music Festival in Zurich.
In 2024, she founded the «Taiwan International Cello Festival» (TWICF), of which she is the artistic director.
A native of Taiwan, Pi-Chin Chien studied with Markus Stocker, Claude Starck, Marek Jerie and Stanislaw Apolin in Zurich, Lucerne and Prague, graduating with a soloist’s diploma with distinction. She received further artistic impulses in masterclasses with Pierre Fournier, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Daniil Shafran and Arto Noras. Pi-Chin Chien has won numerous awards at national and international music competitions.
