CHEN, Chelsea

Chelsea Chen is an American organist and composer, born on 30 December 1983 in San Diego, California. She studied organ at The Juilliard School with John Weaver and Paul Jacobs, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and later completed an Artist Diploma at Yale University with Thomas Murray. She also spent a year in Taiwan on a Fulbright Fellowship, collecting folk songs and composing organ and chamber music.
Her works include the Taiwanese Suite and Three Taiwanese Folksongs for organ. Her music often combines Western organ traditions with Taiwanese folk material. She has performed internationally as both organist and composer.