Violin, Viola & Piano Lessons with Hsuan C.

Hsuan is a violinist who studied with Marilyn McDonald at Oberlin Conservatory and currently studies with I-Hao Lee at the DePaul University School of Music. She began violin studies at age five and graduated from the Elementary School and Middle School Affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Binyou Zhou. She is an avid fan of early music and contemporary sounds.

Chen has performed with the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble and achieved a minor in Historical Performance. She performed Britten’s Suite No. 6 in ‘Music from Oberlin’ at the Oakton Eighteenth Anniversary Season recital. She was awarded assistant principle multiple times in the Oberlin orchestra. With this orchestra, she performed Debussy’s La Mer and Ogonek’s All These Lighted Things in Carnegie Hall in New York.

Chen completed her Master of Music in Violin Performance with Prof. I-Hao Lee at DePaul University School of Music in 2022. She also serves as a regular member at the Civic Orchestra in Chicago. In 2021, Chen was given an honorable mention in the concerto competition held by DePaul University.