The New York Times hailed Evelyn Chen as "a pianist to watch," praising her "brilliant technique, warm, clear tone, and exacting musical intelligence." Ms. Chen’s recent engagements have included performances on five continents at venues including David Geffen Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, Wolf Trap and the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, the Cultural Center of Hong Kong, and the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. 

A Steinway Artist, Ms. Chen has performed with numerous orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra (upon Mstislav Rostropovich's recommendation), the Houston Symphony, the San Diego Symphony, as well as the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, the New Zealand Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico among others.  She has collaborated with renowned conductors including Riccardo Muti, Leonard Slatkin, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Zdenek Macal, Joseph Silverstein, JoAnn Falletta, and Keith Lockhart.

Ms. Chen’s recordings have received international critical acclaim.  Her recording of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Leonard Slatkin and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London on Sony/BMG was among the top ten best-selling classical recordings in England.  Ms. Chen’s performance was praised by Fanfare Magazine as "eminently musical, particularly sensitive to Rachmaninov's intimacies."  Fanfare also commended Ms. Chen's recording of the Miklos Rozsa's Piano Concerto with James Sedares and the New Zealand Symphony on Koch International, stating "it would be hard to imagine a performance more in tune with the music's dynamism than the one turned in by Evelyn Chen, who wonderfully communicates a kind of virtuoso thrill while also capturing every one of the work's Protean changes of mood.”  Gramophone Magazine added that "Evelyn Chen is a dazzlingly secure, marvelously sympathetic exponent that Rozsa fans will rightly welcome with open arms."

Ms. Chen has been featured on the CBS Evening News, and her performances have been broadcast by the National Public Radio, WGBH (Boston), WQXR (New York), WNYC (New York), WNCN (New York), WFMT (Chicago), and WGTS (Washington DC), as well as throughout Taiwan and Great Britain (Classic FM).  She has collaborated in chamber music with artists including violinists Frank Huang, Cho-Liang Lin, and Yoonshin Song, violist James Dunham, cellists Leslie Parnas and Brinton Smith, as well as members of the New York Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony, and the Houston Symphony.  Ms. Chen has also performed before prominent dignitaries including the Princess of Thailand and the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

A winner of several international competitions, Ms. Chen was the recipient of the Petschek Award, which awarded her a fully sponsored New York debut recital at Alice Tully Hall.  She was also the First Prize Winner of the Mieczyslaw Munz International Competition, and the Grand Prize Winner of the Piano Guild International Recording Competition.  As the youngest competitor at the age of fourteen, Ms. Chen captured First Prize in the Bach International Competition in Washington DC. 

Ms. Chen received a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Juilliard School, a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory, and a Bachelor of Arts in composition, Magna Cum Laude with highest honors, from Harvard University.  Her teachers include pianists Russell Sherman and Jerome Lowenthal, and composers Leon Kirchner and David Lewin.  She is currently Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City.