Ray Chen (born 6 March 1989 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the first prize winner in the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and now records on the Sony Masterworks label.
Chen began learning violin at the age of four. Within five years he completed all 10 levels of the Suzuki Music Education (Suzuki method) in Queensland, Australia. Chen was invited to play solo with the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of eight. He was also invited to perform at the opening celebration concert of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Ray Chen was chosen as Australia's 4MBS's "Young Space Musician of the Year" in 1999. He was awarded the Sydney May Memorial Scholarship of the Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) for being the youngest and most talented musician. Chen was awarded his Licentiate Diploma of Music with distinction by the AMEB at age 11. At age 13, he won first prize in the Australian National Youth Concerto Competition (NYCC), and in 2005 won first prize in the 2005 Australia National Kendall Violin Competition.
Professor Goetz Richter, chair of the String Unit at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music has described Chen as "one of the most talented and accomplished young violinists to have emerged from Australia."
In April 2008 Chen won the senior division first prize of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in Cardiff, Wales. As winner of the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition, Chen came to the attention of Maxim Vengerov, who served on the competition jury. Subsequently, he was engaged for performances including debuts with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in St. Petersburg and at the International Rostropovich Festival with the State Symphony Orchestra of Baku, Azerbaijan, under the baton of Vengerov.
In the summers of 2006 and 2007, Chen attended the Encore School for Strings, studying under David Cerone at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 2008 he attended the Aspen Music Festival on a full tuition fellowship, studying with Cho-Liang Lin (Juilliard) and Paul Kantor (Cleveland Institute of Music).
His violin teachers have included Kerry Smith (Queensland Conservatorium) and Professor Peter Zhang (Sydney Conservatorium). Currently Chen studies violin under Aaron Rosand at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Chen was signed by Sony Classical in 2010.He has recorded the Cesar Franck Violin Sonata, the violin concertos of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Felix Mendelssohn, and more.
Additionally, he was invited to perform at the annual Nobel Prize Concert of 2012, Max Bruchs one appreciated violin concerto in g minor, backed up by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
陈锐,英文名Ray Chen,澳洲著名小提琴家,1989年3月6日出生于台湾台北市,后随父母移民澳洲。自幼被视为音乐神童,四岁开始学小提琴,八岁时在澳洲昆士兰,完成铃木教学法(Suzuki method)全部十级的课程。曾获得2008年国际耶胡迪·梅纽因小提琴竞赛冠军,与2009年比利时伊丽莎白皇后大赛小提琴冠军。