KEVIN CHEN

Sunday, September 20, 2026 | 3 PM     Vancouver Playhouse
600 Hamilton St., Vancouver, BC (Click for directions)

“…an authentic artist with beautiful sensitivity and remarkable mastery.” (Bertrand Boissard, Diapason)

We begin our season with a concert by Canada’s very own Kevin Chen, silver medalist at the 19th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. His decision to perform the complete set of Chopin’s Etudes, Op. 10, drew wide attention and praise, with Polish critics calling his interpretation “a complete musical story, not a show of virtuosity”.
Following his highly successful 2024 debut on our series, we immediately re-engaged Kevin for this return appearance, and we were understandably ecstatic over his triumph in Warsaw last year. In addition, Kevin is also 1st prize winner of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition (2023), the Concours de Genève (2022), the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition (2021), and the Hilton Head International Piano Competition (2020) – a very accomplished young musician indeed.

He has collaborated with many prestigious orchestras and conductors, and has been a favourite guest artist in some of the most distinguished music festivals internationally.

Please join us in welcoming back this stunningly talented young Canadian artist, and one of the nicest young men we have met!

CHOPIN: 24 Préludes, Op. 28.
Intermission
SCRIABIN: Prélude in B Major, Op. 11 No. 11
SCRIABIN: Fantasy, op. 28O
SCRIABIN: Vers la flamme, Op. 72
LISZT: Années de pèlerinage III, Les Jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este, S. 163 No. 4
LISZT: Les préludes (Symphonic poem), S. 97 (solo piano transcription arranged by Kevin Chen)

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