Giulianna Chen

Giulianna Chen is currently an eighth-grade student at Mulgrave School in West Vancouver, BC, Canada. At the age of 6, she began to learn to play piano with Ms. Cindy Liu and then with Dr. Sun Sung Kong of KL Piano Academy in North Vancouver, and she has been studying piano with both teachers ever since. At the age of 8, she won the Grand Prize (ages 7-10) at the 60th Canadian Music Competition in Montreal and First Place (Junior Section) at the 2018 Steinway Piano Competition in Vancouver. Her most recent awards include the Gold Award in Junior Group B at the Vancouver International Piano Competition (2022); First Prize in the Second Group (ages 10-12) of the 29th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition for Children and Youth in Szafarnia, Poland (2022); First Prize in the “Piano Talents” category at the 2021 VI Krystian Tkaczewski International Piano Competition; and many more over the past five years from local, national, and international piano competitions. Giulianna also joined a student chamber music group under the guidance of distinguished Professor Taras Gabora as its youngest member. In July 2020, Giulianna performed her Virtual Concert@Home on YouTube during the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic.