eden chen
pianist
building an atlas of meaning from the cultural fragments of today’s multipolar world.
For Eden, music is Both lens and lever.
It reveals how people make meaning, and shapes the systems that allow meaning to persist.
Eden’s music seeks what lies beneath the visible: the informal systems, gestures, and unspoken values that shape how people live, create, and connect.
He traces unseen patterns that thread cultures, disciplines and times, arranging fragments of experience into music and living structures that guide leadership and diplomacy.
Sols Interlinked
Album pairing Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin with Eden’s Ryuichi Sakamoto arrangements.
Renewing centuries of French-Japanese dialogue. Explore the awe and ache of memory reshaping itself in the present.
Upcoming
Projects
Paradise Lost
Liszt’s Sonata in b minor, epic poetry, and surrealist art meet in a mythic experience.
Art forms intersect to reveal threads of despair and hope across centuries.
Lullaby & Signature
Jazz-inflected songs inspired by Bert Meyers’ poetry, curated by Eden.
Asserting human agency and resilience in an age of technological anxiety.
Goldfinch Initiative
Designing sustainable healthcare solutions for artists.
Aligning artistic purpose, people, and structures that support creative community.
saudi Arabia residency
Creating the kingdom’s first nationwide music education program.
Listening as diplomacy: learning how values are practiced, not just stated, to build authentic collaboration.