FIU Music Festival 2021: Chelsea Chen, Wertheim Organ Recital
Schedule
Sat Nov 06 2021 at 07:30 pm
Location
FIU School of Music | Miami, FL
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The FIU Music Festival returns this October 20, 2021 – November 13, 2021. Come see why we are FIU’s premier music festival! With culturally diverse and engaging concerts featuring revered Classical and Jazz musicians from acclaimed ensembles, we have something for every musical taste. Oceanbank is the sponsor of the FIU Music Festival.A full list of concerts can be found here: https://carta.fiu.edu/music/fiu-music-festival/
Organist Chelsea Chen will dazzle audiences on the glorious Sydell Ida Wertheim Organ– the spotlight of the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center. Chelsea Chen's dynamic playing has taken her to the far corners of the world. Her solo concerts offer a unique mix of traditional organ repertoire along with piano/orchestral transcriptions and contemporary music. The Los Angeles Times has praised her “rare musicality” and “lovely lyrical grandeur,” and a compositional style that is “charming” and “irresistible.”
Recent highlights include performing as soloist with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (a traditional Chinese instrument ensemble), the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, and the Lou Harrison Festival Rutgers Orchestra at Trinity Wall Street. Recent and upcoming recital venues include the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas Texas, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City, and Christ Cathedral, Garden Grove CA. She will also present concerts in Taiwan and northern Europe.
Chelsea originally hails from San Diego, where her formative music teachers were organists Leslie Robb (St. Paul’s Lutheran, San Diego) and Monte Maxwell (U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis) and pianists Baruch Arnon (New York City), Jane Bastien and Lori Bastien Vickers (San Diego). She studied under Paul Jacobs and John Weaver at The Juilliard School in New York, where she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. She also won the John Erskine Prize for academic and artistic achievement, awarded to one graduate per year. After college she moved to Taiwan under a Fulbright scholarship, whereupon she collected folk songs and wrote organ solo and chamber music. She returned to the U.S. to study with Thomas Murray in the Artist Diploma program at Yale University. From 2013-2017 she served as Organist and Concert Series Director at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale. She currently resides in New York City as Artist-in-Residence at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church.
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Where is it happening?
FIU School of Music, Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center 10910 SW 17th St, Miami, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
