Tania Chen

Who is Tania Chen?

Tania Chen is a London, UK-based concert pianist specialising in experimental, improvised and contemporary music. She is known for performing the works of composers such as Cornelius Cardew, Michael Parsons, John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman and Chris Newman. Composers of the younger generation she has worked with include John Lely, Li-Chuan Chong and James Saunders.

She has also collaborated with musicians including improviser and composer Steve Beresford, composer Andrew Poppy, pianist John Tilbury, bassist John Edwards, drummer Mark Sanders and harpist Rhodri Davies. She has also collaborated with the film-maker Jayne Parker.

She has performed in the US, UK, Asia and Europe, at venues including Tate Modern, GaleGates, The Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, the Purcell Room, where she gave a complete performance of John Cage's Music of Changes Books I-IV, and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.

Recent concerts include Cornelius Cardew for BBC Radio 3 and a performance of Satie's Vexations for the "Sleep" Installation at the Tate Modern 27 & 28 May 2007, alongside Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars and Joshua Rifkin.