Sharon Chen

 

Composer–performer with backgrounds in piano and violin.

Creating original works for piano, chamber, and orchestral ensembles.

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Shaped by Western musical forms alongside East Asian philosophical perspectives.

 

Composer, pianist, and violinist creating contemporary classical repertoire rooted in the Western tradition, grounded in lyrical and modern impressionist language.

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A graduate of Harvard College in Music and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, her work draws on both Western form and East Asian philosophical ideas, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach connecting musical composition with broader cultural and conceptual frameworks.

 

Her work includes widely heard original piano works such as Nocturne in C minor, The Phoenix Waltz, Where Light Sleeps, and piano EPs Emergence, Lettre pour toi and Trois petits morceaux, alongside programmatic cycles shaped by philosophical frameworks.

 

These projects form interconnected chapters in an evolving artistic timeline, emphasizing melody, color, and theme-and-variation within a contemporary classical language.

 

Her recordings have accumulated over 16 million streams on Spotify, alongside more than 1.4 million streams on Pandora, reflecting strong listener retention and radio-style engagement.

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Her music has reached listeners internationally across North America, Europe, and East Asia, and has led to ongoing engagement from musicians, with listeners discovering her work through streaming platforms and purchasing sheet music for performance and study. Works including le courage d’aimer, The Phoenix Waltz, Nocturne in C Minor and Fantasia in A Minor have been taken up by performers, demonstrating ongoing repertoire engagement.

 

Her music is often described as quietly immersive, with emotional precision. Sheet music for selected originals is available on her website. Selected crossover performances are available under her Hua Mulan moniker.