Phyllis Chen
Festival Appearances
| Date | Time | Event | Venue | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon May 3 | 2:00pm | Phyllis Chen | Wellspring Theater, Epic Center - Kalamazoo | Tickets | Details |
Artist Bio
Phyllis Chen’s artistic pursuits take her in numerous directions as a toy pianist, pianist, composer and performance artist. Since discovering the toy piano, Ms. Chen has become a trailblazer, performing original multi-media compositions using toy pianos, electronics and video and works by prominent 20th century composers such as John Cage and Julia Wolfe.
She was the featured musician for the world premiere and ensuing six-week run of Steven Merritt’s off-broadway production, Coraline, which opened in May 2009. In 2008 she premiered the winning three pieces from The UnCaged Toy Piano, a composition competition she created to further expand the repertoire for toy piano and electronics.
While working on her DMA in piano performance at Indiana University under the tutelage of André Watts, Ms. Chen hosted her own radio program, The Toad’s Wart, on IU’s radio station WIUX-LP.
