Kuan-Wei Chen

Year of birth: 2000
Place of birth: Taoyuan
Educated in: Vienna
Place of residence: Vienna
(Plays in Vienna)

Finalist of the 65^th Ferruccio Busoni
International Piano Competition

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November 2024 Preselections

Program

A. Skrjabin - Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 F. Chopin - Étude op. 10, no. 10 S. Rachmaninov - Études-Tableaux op. 39, no. 9

Biography

Kuan-Wei Chen began studying piano at five. At sixteen, he was admitted to the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, studying with Prof. Konrad Maria Engel, and later pursued a master’s at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under Prof. Anna Malikova. In March 2025, he won 5th Prize and one special award at the 70th Maria Canals International Piano Competition. In 2024, he won 1st Prize and the Audience Award at the Giovanni Colafemmina Piano Competition, and the Yamaha Foundation Scholarship in Austria. He also earned 1st Prize at the Radovljica International Piano Competition in 2023. In the same month, he received 3rd Prize and two special prizes—Best Interpretation of Commissioned Work and La Flandre Assurances Prize—at the 4th Les Étoiles du Piano Competition.

Due to health reasons the candidates Shotaro Nishimura and Zixi Chen could not participate in the GPP 2022. They received the possibility to participate in this edition.

Candidates who withdrew from the competition:

Bily Robert
Deng Yubo
Durliat Gabriel
Guo Yungyung
Han Wenfang
Lee Shinyoung
Martinelli Riccardo
Park Chaeyoung
Thomazinho Lucas
Wang Jiapeng