German Classical Pianist Anjulie Chen is an emerging young artist who is establishing a reputation as a musician with “an admirable musical sensibility”. Her playing has been praised for its “subtlety, stylishness and warmth” and is “full of poise, elegance and feeling”.
Anjulie engages with a multitude of repertoire, but is especially devoted to Schubertian and French repertoire - a passion that has led her to work with eminent artists such as Thomas Adés and Kirill Gerstein on invitation by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dame Imogen Cooper, Pascal Rogé and Dina Yoffe. She is also a passionate chamber musician and has been accepted to numerous prestigious festivals such as the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, the Oxford Piano Festival and the Virtuoso&BelCanto Festival on invitation by cellist Adrian Brendel.
Recent success include being a finalist at the RAM Strings and Piano Duo Prize 2025 with her Duo Partner and Violist Xin He, as well as the release of her debut album in collaboration with Conductor and Soprano Barbara Hannigan and the Royal Academy of Music and Juilliard School of Music on chamber music by Igor Stravinsky with Linn Records.
Other achievements include her successful and critically well received debut solo appearance at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan as part of the Beethoven Festival 2021, including winning third prize at the Lagny-sur-Marne International Piano Competition 2019 and earning second place at the RAM Strings and Piano Duo Prize 2022 with her Duo Partner and Violist Xin He.
Additionally, Anjulie is a two-time scholarship recipient of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Programme) and a 2024 Help Musicians Postgraduate Award Holder who generously support 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.
Originally from Munich, Anjulie Chen was born into music at an early age through her mother and pianist Yumiko Yamamoto. 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 completed the undergraduate course in 2022 and graduated from her Master of Arts degree in 2024, both with a first class honours degree.
Anjulie is currently studying the Academy’s Professional Diploma programme.
Current as of March 2025