Eden’s Work
Tracing Hidden structures Across music, culture and human systems.
Eden Chen is a pianist whose explores the diverse ways human beings create and sustain meaning. He is a Young Steinway Artist and one of the youngest Fulbright Specialists ever appointed by U.S. Department of State, and has performed on world stages including Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall, Pritzker Pavilion, and Wigmore Hall.
“fluid performances and fingers that dance upon, rather than play, the piano” (Leeds Living).
In 2025–26, Eden makes his orchestral debut performing Liszt’s Malediction at Carnegie Hall with the Chamber Orchestra of New York. He returned as Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Centre, performed in Geneva and Easton under Gabriela Montero’s curation and mentorship, and was invited to perform in a series at Istanbul’s Atatürk Cultural Center, broadcast nationally in Turkey.
Eden’s artistry synthesizes the fragments of modern life into sound worlds that restore wonder to everyday experience. His upcoming album, Stars Interlinked, is inspired by Solaris and Blade Runner, pairing Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin with original piano arrangements of Ryuichi Sakamoto. The project reflects on memory and transformation: how the past changes because we can revisit it using only the language we have today. In Paradise Lost, Eden reimagines Milton’s myth through Liszt’s Sonata and surrealist art by Pablo Auladell, illuminating universal threads of despair and hope that connect life and art across centuries. He curated poetry by Bert Meyers for Lullaby & Signature, jazz-inspired songs that meditate on technology, decay, and the persistence of human agency. Eden debuted these pieces at the Kennedy Center.
Beyond performance, Eden’s leadership extends his artistic vision into systems that connect and sustain culture. He is one of the youngest Fulbright Specialists ever appointed by the U.S. State Department, representing the U.S. in cultural diplomacy with 160+ partner institutions globally. Eden was identified by the Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship as an outstanding candidate to promote US-Belgian cultural exchange at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, and has partnered with Queen Elisabeth winner Timothy Chooi to perform for the Belgian Consul-General. Eden also served as a foreign technical expert to the Saudi Music Commission, creating curriculum for its first national music education program and teaching members of the royal family. In a country where music was banned until 2016, he engaged in vital cultural exchange by introducing formal Western classical music training while studying Arabic music from Saudi masters. As founder and executive director of the Goldfinch Initiative, he builds healthcare access for performing artists - a model for how creative and economic structures can sustain one another. His work has been featured by The Violin Channel and benefited prizewinners of the Chopin and Leeds competitions.
Educated at The Juilliard School, where he earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees under Hung-Kuan Chen, Eden was awarded the Career Advancement Fellowship, Juilliard’s highest commencement honor. He is currently mentored by Gabriela Montero, and is alum of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation, where he is active in performance, recording and mentorship with Lang Lang. Eden formally pursued international business and diplomacy degrees at Columbia University, and continues to expand his understanding of how cultural and material frameworks reinforce each other.
Across all his work - from the concert stage to cultural institutions - he is guided by one question:
How can music build trust and create more meaningful lives?
