Stella Chen

Stella Chen (born 1992) is an American violinist. She was the first prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Belgium in 2019; won the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2020; and was named the Young Artist of the Year, Gramophone Classical Music Awards in 2023.

Biography Chen is a graduate of Harvard University (BA, psychology), the Juilliard School, and the New England Conservatory of Music, where she earned a master's degree. From 2019 to 2023 she studied at the Kronberg Academy with .

Chen performed as soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony and appeared in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Vienna's Musikverein and Berliner Philharmonie. She plays chamber music with Perlman, Weilerstein, and Robert Levin.

From 2019 to 2023, Chen played the 'Huggins' 1708 Stradivarius violin loaned from the Nippon Music Foundation and plays the 1700 ex-Petri Stradivarius on loan from Ryuji Ueno and Rare Violins In Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative.

Awards 2006: Fifth prize, junior division, Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France 2008: Fourth prize, senior division, Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, Cardiff, Wales 2019: First prize, Queen Elisabeth Competition, Brussels, Belgium 2020: Recipient, Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award 2020: Recipient, Avery Fisher Career Grant 2023: Recipient, Young Artist of the Year, Gramophone Classical Music Awards

Discography 2023 Stella X Schubert 2026 Stella Chen, Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Jean-Jacques Kantorow - Beethoven & Barber: Violin Concertos