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Ke Chia Chen (陳可嘉)

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Ke Chia Chen (陳可嘉)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Ke Chia Chen
  • Chinese: 陳可嘉
  • Era: -
  • Geography: 台灣
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Compositions of Ke-Chia Chen have been performed by leading orchestras, chamber ensembles and soloists throughout the United States, Japan and Taiwan. Her music has been programmed at a variety of different venues including Carnegie Hall (Song of the Wanderer, for clarinet and piano), WHYY radio in Philadelphia (The Desires, for viola and double string quartet) and the Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s Miles of Manuscript ~ A New Music Concert, hosted by David Lang (Rhapsody of Seasons for string quartet). Her work To An Isolated Island, for piano solo can be heard on the Amillita Entertaining Group release, Formosa: 24 Caprices for solo piano, featuring piano soloist, Chih-long Hu.

Education

  • Curtis Institute of Music — B.S.Composition
  • the Manhattan School of Music — M.S. Composition
  • University of Pennsylvania — Ph.D.Composition

Employment

  • New York based orchestra Ensemble — Assistant Conductor
  • New York Youth Symphony; — Composer-in-residence
  • Curtis Institute of Music — 2010- — Faculty
  • Brooklyn’s “Concerts on the Slope”, chamber music ensemble — 2016-2017 — Composer-in-residence

Family

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Performances & Recordings

  • Works performed by leading orchestras, chamber ensembles, and soloists across the United States, Japan, and Taiwan.
  • Carnegie Hall: “Song of the Wanderer” (clarinet and piano).
  • WHYY radio, Philadelphia: “The Desires” (viola and double string quartet).
  • Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s “Miles of Manuscript ~ A New Music Concert,” hosted by David Lang: “Rhapsody of Seasons” (string quartet).
  • “To An Isolated Island” (piano solo) appears on the Amillita Entertaining Group release Formosa: 24 Caprices for solo piano, performed by pianist |Chih-Long Hu 胡志龍.
  • Composition education: Curtis Institute of Music (B.S.), Manhattan School of Music (M.S.), University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.); on the Curtis faculty since 2010, composer-in-residence with the New York Youth Symphony and Brooklyn’s “Concerts on the Slope” (2016–2017).

Sources

Connected in the Vault

  • Reciprocal link: |Chih-Long Hu’s page confirms he performed her piano solo “To An Isolated Island” on Formosa: 24 Caprices for solo piano.
  • Archival record: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/20-ke-chia-chen-e9-99-b3-e5-8f-af-e5-98-89-composer|TAH #20 encyclopedia, Composer, 2014/10]]
  • Archival record: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1059|TAH #1059 encyclopedia, Ke Chia Chen 陳可嘉, 2015/06]]
  • Publisher / source site: |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org（TAH Who’s Who 人物檔）

Career notes（deepen pass 2026-09-14，僅重組本頁 TAH 原文事實）

  • 創作上演範圍橫跨美國、日本、台灣的指標性樂團、室內樂團與獨奏家。
  • 代表場域與曲目：Carnegie Hall《Song of the Wanderer》（單簧管與鋼琴）；費城 WHYY 廣播電台《The Desires》（中提琴與雙弦樂四重奏）；Delaware Symphony Orchestra「Miles of Manuscript ~ A New Music Concert」（David Lang 主持）之《Rhapsody of Seasons》（弦樂四重奏）。
  • 錄音：《To An Isolated Island》（鋼琴獨奏）收錄於 Amillita Entertaining Group 發行《Formosa: 24 Caprices for solo piano》，由 |Chih-Long Hu 胡志龍 演奏。
  • 教學與駐館：Curtis Institute of Music 教師（2010– ）；New York Youth Symphony 駐館作曲家；Brooklyn「Concerts on the Slope」室內樂團駐館作曲家（2016–2017）；紐約樂團 Assistant Conductor。
  • 學歷：Curtis Institute of Music（B.S. Composition）、Manhattan School of Music（M.S. Composition）、University of Pennsylvania（Ph.D. Composition）。

Deepen-x 2026-09-14 (slice 09141300-4, vault-only) — SKIP with reason

Corpus grep (works/ + articles/, ZH 陳可嘉 and EN Ke Chia Chen / Ke-Chia Chen) returns only her own TAH encyclopedia records ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/20-ke-chia-chen-e9-99-b3-e5-8f-af-e5-98-89-composer|TAH #20]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1059|TAH #1059]] — both already linked above, band-B bibliographic) and the reciprocal mention on |Chih-Long Hu’s page, already reflected in Connected in the Vault. No memoir material on this composer; nothing new absorbable. No web, no new pages.

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