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Ixi Chen - 2nd and Eb Clarinetist in Cincinatti Symphony; Adjunct Professor at the Cincinnati Conservatory
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Biography
Ixi Chen has been the principal second clarinet of the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2001. Born in Taiwan and
raised in California, she began playing the instrument at age
eleven and was the youngest pupil of the late Rosario Mazzeo.
She went on to earn a Bachelor of Music degree from the
Manhattan School of Music and a Master of Music degree at the
University of Southern California with Yehuda Gilad. Her
teachers also include Wolfgang Meyer of the Hochschule fur Musik
Karlsruhe, and David Krakauer.
Ms. Chen has
performed in concert halls throughout Europe and Eastern Europe,
including performances at Schleswig-Hostein, Rheingau, Evian,
Thessoloniki and Midsummer Lights of St. Petersburg Festivals.
She has served as Principal Clarinet of the Philharmonie der
Nationen in Hamburg Germany and has had fellowships with the
Tanglewood Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival.
Ms. Chen is also a
very active chamber musician, recently founding the Concertnova
here in Cincinnati. Concertnova is an innovative and eclectic
chamber music group that is about to embark on its inaugural
season this coming fall of 2005. She is also a frequent
performer with the Linton Chamber Music series. June 2006 brings
Ms. Chen to Germany on a chamber music tour with members of the
Berlin Philharmonic.
Currently she is an
adjunct faculty member of the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music and on music faculty of the Seven
Hills School. Author of Adventures in Music, a guide for
teachers of K-6 music teachers, she has been a private teacher
since 1991.
She holds degrees from
the Manhattan School of Music (BM) and from the University of
Southern California (MM).
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