{"id":223295,"date":"2025-10-18T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223295\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:16:07","slug":"canadas-kevin-chen-advances-to-chopin-piano-competition-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223295\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Kevin Chen advances to Chopin piano competition finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canadian pianist Kevin Chen has advanced to the finals of the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopincompetition.pl\/en\/competitors\/832\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 International Chopin Piano Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopincompetition.pl\/en\/competitors\/832\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chen<\/a>, 20, is among five Canadians who competed in this year\u2019s event, held every five years in Warsaw, Poland. He was joined by fellow Canadian pianists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopincompetition.pl\/en\/competitors\/676\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athena Deng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopincompetition.pl\/en\/competitors\/685\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Guo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopincompetition.pl\/en\/competitors\/789\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Wang<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopincompetition.pl\/en\/competitors\/791\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Wong<\/a>, who were among dozens of competitors from Asia, North America and Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Born in Calgary in 2005, Chen made his orchestral debut with the Abbotsford Youth Orchestra and is now based in Hanover, Germany, according to his competition biography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has since performed with ensembles including the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Orchestra and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chen has also appeared at prominent venues and festivals around the world, including Carnegie Hall in New York, and St John\u2019s Smith Square in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He won the 2022 Geneva International Music Competition and the 2023 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chen is set to open the third day of the finals on Monday, Oct. 20, with a performance of Chopin\u2019s Piano Concerto in E Minor, Op. 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Videos of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopincompetition.pl\/en\/media?type=videos&amp;person_search=Kevin+Chen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">performances by Chen<\/a> have been posted on the Chopin Competition website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The last edition of the Chopin Competition was won by another Canadian, Bruce Xiaoyu Liu, in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files form CTV News\u2019 Kendra Mangione.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian pianist Kevin Chen has advanced to the finals of the prestigious 2025 International Chopin Piano Competition. Chen,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-223295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}