Visionary pianist Jenny Q Chai joins forces with New York Philharmonic musicians Quan Ge (violin), Jason You (violin), Cong Wu (viola), and Nathan Vickery (cello) in a program that explores friendship across life trajectories as well as musical conversation across time.
View PostPianist Jenny Q Chai’s Carnegie Hall debut last night was expertly programmed and packed with joie de vivre: she played as if she had a secret and couldn’t wait to share it with everybody. Her approach to a mix of premieres, 20th and 21st century compositions and an old High Romantic concert favorite matched fearsome technique to a confidently matter-of-fact …
View PostOn the occasion of the last Play Me concert, I’m Yours 2017, we invite you to 88 Ménilmontant, the new ephemeral place of La Bellevilloise to celebrate the end of this 6 th edition. On the program, Jenny Q Chai & WYVE!
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Dear friends and music lovers, In this very difficult time, I want you all to know that my heart is with you. My school FaceArt Institute of Music in Shanghai has been mailing hundreds and hopefully thousands of N95 masks to health workers and friends throughout the U.S. Yet the need is so big and it is impossible to provide …
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In this holiday season, I’d like to wish all of you all the happiness! Happy Hannakah, Happy Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Chinese 元宵节， Happy Everyday! As a token of my appreciation for your ongoing support of the music I do, I’d like to share with you a preview of the new album I just recorded, with Bach Goldberg Aria, …
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Dear Friends and Music Supporters, It has been a super full summer for me. I have designed and hosted a month long of FAIM Co-Creation Music Festival at the FaceArt Institute of Music I founded with Juilliard pianist Piotr Tomasz in Shanghai 9 years ago, where we invited AMAZING faculty such as piano pedagogues Dr. Solomon Mikowsky, Prof. Inesa Synkevich, …
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Jenny has been appointed to the faculty of the University of California Berkeley, effective in the 2019-2020 season. Read the press release here: https://www.broadwayworld.com/san-francisco/article/Pianist-Jenny-Q-Chai-Appointed-To-The-Piano-Faculty-Of-The-University-Of-California-Berkeley-20190718 She has also been named an official career mentor at Manhattan School of Music and this summer, will be in residence at Chetham’s International Summer School and Festival in the UK, a position that includes teaching, …
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Jenny has been invited to give an exclusive TEDx Talk on “When Classical Music Meets Technology” on September 7, 2019 at the Shanghai Times Financial Center. In addition to the talk, Jenny will perform some of frequent collaborator Jarosław Kapuściński’s Calligraphies for Ziqi.
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Dear Friends and Music Supporters, I would like to share the review of my last concert at UC Berkeley CNMAT, where I had a wonderful audience and support of technology. The program was the New Yorker recommended Sonorous Brushes, where I explore the connection between colours and sounds. It is my pleasure to share with you the review and the …
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