Tania Chen
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Tania Chen | |
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Born | England |
Genres | Free improvisation, sound art |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instrument(s) | Piano |
Years active | 1990s – present |
Website | http://www.taniachen.com |
Tania Caroline Chen is a composer, improviser, and sound artist utilizing piano and found sounds. After moving to the United States, Tania toured and performed across the country. She initially settled in Northern California and is now based in New York. She is known for performing the works of composers such as Cornelius Cardew (Recording), John Cage, Earle Brown (recording), Morton Feldman, Chris Newman, and David Toop [1] (recording).
She has also collaborated with musicians including improviser and composer Steve Beresford (with whom she recorded 'Ointment'), composer Andrew Poppy (concert), pianist John Tilbury, bassist John Edwards, drummer Mark Sanders and harpist Rhodri Davies. She has also collaborated with the film-maker Jayne Parker.
She has performed throughout the US, UK, Asia and Europe, at venues including Tate Modern, GaleGates (Brooklyn, NYC), The Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (Berlin), the Purcell Room, where she gave a complete performance of John Cage's Music of Changes Books I-IV, and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.
Recent concerts include
Originally trained as a classical pianist, she studied (amongst others) with
Partial discography
External links
- Tania Chen BioSite
- Personal website
- Tania Chen BandCamp
- Review of John Cage performance at Purcell Room, 2002
- Sequenza Review of Feldman Performance