“Anjulie Chen captivated with tonal depth and nuanced touch.”
German pianist Anjulie Chen is regarded as one of the promising young artists of her generation and is increasingly establishing herself as a musician of “admirable musical sensitivity.” Her playing has been praised for its “subtlety, stylishness and warmth” and is described as “full of poise, elegance and feeling.”
Highlights of the 2026 season include appearances at the Chiltern Arts Festival and the Schiermonnikoog Chamber Music Festival, as well as concerto performances with the Blaze Ensemble and the Bushey Symphony Orchestra. Further engagements include her Munich debut at the Irenensaal, alongside chamber music collaborations with principal players of the Munich Radio Orchestra.
Recent achievements include her selection as the only pianist from the Royal Academy of Music to represent the institution at the intercollegiate Sheepdrove Music Competition, as well as the release of her debut chamber music album featuring works by Igor Stravinsky on Linn Records, in collaboration with conductor and soprano Barbara Hannigan, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Juilliard School. She also made her critically acclaimed debut solo appearance at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan as part of the Beethoven Festival 2021, was a semi-finalist at the Birmingham International Piano Competition 2022, and won Third Prize at the Lagny-sur-Marne International Piano Competition 2019.
Anjulie engages with a wide range of repertoire but is especially drawn to Schubertian and French music—a passion that has led her to work with eminent artists such as Anne Queffélec, Thomas Adès and Kirill Gerstein, as well as Dame Imogen Cooper, Pascal Rogé and Dina Yoffe, on invitation by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has been accepted to numerous prestigious festivals, including the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, the Virtuoso & Bel Canto Festival (by invitation of cellist Adrian Brendel), and the ArtenetrA Festival, generously sponsored by the Matthiesen Foundation.
Alongside her solo performances, Anjulie Chen maintains an active chamber music career and has developed a particular and growing focus on the viola repertoire. As a member of the CHESA Duo with violist Xin He, she has received guidance from leading violists including Tabea Zimmermann, Timothy Ridout, Lawrence Power, Garth Knox and Martin Outram.
Additionally, Anjulie is a two-time scholarship recipient of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Programme) and a 2024 Help Musicians Postgraduate Award holder, which generously supported her throughout her studies. She has also been awarded the Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music for an exceptional performance in her Master of Arts final recital.
Besides her concert activities as a soloist and chamber musician at home and abroad, Anjulie also enjoys performing in social institutions as a Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now scholarship holder, and is also the founder of SINNENWANDELN, a Munich-based cultural initiative that advocates for unlimited cultural participation regardless of income.
Alongside music, she is also an active photographer with a growing focus on musicians and performance. Her previous clients include the Munich Radio Orchestra, Nova Music Opera, Spitalfields Music Festival, Presteigne Festival, Romsey Chamber Music Festival and Open Page Theatre Company.
Originally from Munich, Anjulie Chen was born into music at an early age. Until the age of fifteen, however, her passion for classical music was expressed mainly through professional ballet training. As a private student of Roland Vogel, Bojana Nenadovic and Natalia Kalinichenko, she regularly appeared with the Bavarian State Ballet on the stage of the Bavarian State Opera in productions such as “Sleeping Beauty”, “Raymonda” and “Le Corsaire”. She was awarded a full scholarship to the Goh Ballet Academy in Vancouver at the international ballet competition Tanzolymp Berlin and also gained attention in the contemporary dance scene. The work “Remembering Peter Pan” by the Spanish choreographer Ángel Rodríguez was dedicated to her. Due to an injury in 2015, Anjulie quit her professional ballet training and has since devoted herself to the piano.
She first began her music studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts Munich with Prof. Thomas Böckheler and moved to London two years later to study with Prof. Colin Stone at the Royal Academy of Music, where she attained her Bachelor of Music, Master of Arts as well as Professional Diploma degree, all with first-class honours.