Streaming & Audience
 

• 18 million Spotify streams across the Sharon Chen catalog. Demonstrates strong listener engagement and repeat listening across the catalog.

• 1.49 million Pandora streams.

• The United States is currently Sharon Chen’s largest Spotify listener market, followed by Turkey, Italy, Canada, and Germany.

• International audience includes a growing North American market, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia.

• 900,000 YouTube views

• Following discovery through Pandora and Instagram, selected original works—including Le courage d’aimer, Nocturne in C Minor, The Phoenix Waltz, and Fantasia in A Minor—have generated ongoing sheet music purchases, demonstrating audience engagement beyond streaming.

 

Editorial & Platform Recognition
 

• 38 Pandora editorial playlist placements, including Fire EP's Fantasia in A Minor (Piano & Violin) — Pandora editorial programming in Instrumental and New Age Instrumental; every Fire work is in one or more editorials. The Phoenix Waltz and Nocturne in C Minor remain among my five most-played tracks on Pandora, including activity from their earlier standalone releases.

• Catalog indexed in Apple Classical.

• Disney-inspired arrangements featured within Apple Classical's catalog ecosystem, appearing alongside works associated with major film composers and established classical catalog recordings.

• Original works available on Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, YouTube Music,  all major platforms and Bandcamp.

• One World Music Radio (UK) Best Single Award (April 2024).

• One World Music Radio (UK)Album Award, 3rd Place (September 2024).​​

 

 

Performance & Education
 

• Carnegie Recital Hall solo violin performance at age 12.

• Meadowmount School of Music (Galamian)

• Eastman School of Music Pre-College — Three-year scholarship studies in violin (Zvi Zeitlin) and piano; Cappadocia scholarship for chamber music

• Concertmaster, Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, three years

• Harvard College — A.B. in Music and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, cum laude

• Aspen School of Music (DeLay)

• Violin Recitals in the United States and Taiwan

• Victoria Summer Music Festival (Dana and Yuri Mazurkevich)

• Over a decade of experience teaching piano and violin.

• Creator and host of classical livestream salons and educational performance content

 

 

Original Works/Albums

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• Fire — EP, 2026. Original five-work piano cycle expanding the human story of Emergence into a cosmological perspective centered on continual change and dynamic balance. 2.6 million Spotify streams.

• Emergence — EP, 2026. Original piano cycle exploring the human narrative from innocence to maturity and beyond. 3 million Spotify streams.

• Original piano cycles including Emergence and Fire exploring transformation through interconnected musical narratives.

• Chopin: Two Nocturnes — Intimate Piano — EP, 2026. Interpretations of Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2 and Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, Op. posth. 504,000 Spotify streams. Combined Chopin recordings over 600k.

• Trois petits morceaux — EP, 2023. Original piano cycle tracing love from first encounter through vulnerability and the courage to love, later completed by the postlude Lettre pour toi (2025). 2.4 million Spotify streams.

• le courage d'aimer — 1.4 M Spotify streams

• Nocturne in C Minor — 1.3M Spotify streams

• Blissful & Beyond — Album, 2024. Original contemporary classical works for piano, solo strings, and orchestra. 1.2 million Spotify streams.

• Reflection from ‘Mulan’ — Disney Piano Album, 2025. Jazz and cinematic piano arrangements of Disney repertoire. 1.4 million Spotify streams.

• Romance in Time — EP, 2024, released as Hua Mulan. Cinematic piano interpretations including Somewhere in Time, Moon River, and Over the Rainbow. 598,000 Spotify streams.

• Autumn Leaves Medley — EP, 2025, released as Hua Mulan. Jazz interpretations of Autumn Leaves presented in contrasting arrangements. 660,000 Spotify streams.

• Original catalog with  more than 18M Spotify streams overall

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