A Washington native, cellist Audrey Chen is a passionate solo and chamber musician dedicated to sharing the music-making process of discovery and collaboration with the rest of the world. She has performed in venues across the globe, including at Carnegie Hall, the Mariinsky Theatre, Royal Albert Hall, and the Kennedy Center, and has performed as a guest artist alongside the Boston Chamber Music Society, A Far Cry, the Silk Road Ensemble, the Parker Quartet, and the Borromeo Quartet. She has also been featured on NPR’s From the Top and has given solo concerts with the Seattle Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra Summer Institute, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.

Audrey’s chamber festival appearances include at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, Tanglewood Music Center, Taos School of Music, California Summer Music, and Sarasota Music Festival. She has also served as principal cellist of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra Academy in Germany, the New York String Orchestra Seminar, Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the USA, and the Youth Music Culture Guangdong Orchestra. Her main teachers include Laurence Lesser, Lluis Claret, and Marcy Rosen. After receiving a Bachelor’s from Harvard University and Master’s in Music from the New England Conservatory, she is now based in NYC, pursuing a Doctorate in Musical arts from the CUNY Graduate Center. She is also the cellist of the acclaimed New-York based Argus Quartet.