Biography

Taiwanese flautist Yi-Hsuan Chen graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with First Class Honours, having received a scholarship from RAM to study with William Bennett, Samuel Coles (flute) and Helen Keen (piccolo). She was invited to be a teaching assistant at William Bennett’s Summer School, in 2019, after having been invited as a guest artist in the 10th Singapore Flute Festival and taking part in the Golden Flute Choir at the 43rd Annual National Flute Association Convention in Washington, D.C.

Yi-Hsuan has performed in several countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas, having also premiered several works including commissions in celebration of the Royal Academy of Music’s Bicentenary and for the project ‘Marés’, curated by Fabricio Mattos and the Brazilian Embassy in London. Yi-Hsuan also enjoys a prolific career as a chamber and orchestral musician, having worked with well-known conductors including Semyon Bychkov, Oliver Knussen, Edward Gardner and John Wilson, apart from performing with the Czech Philharmonic in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia, streamed live on BBC Radio. In the field of chamber music, Yi-Hsuan also performs regularly with her woodwind quintet, Sylva Winds, and Tangram, to which Chen also recorded a digital music performance called INFUSION as part of the their ‘Tangram Voices Series’.