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Meng-Heng Chen, faculty of Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. She earned the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston University in 2010, with a major in Historical Performance and Recorder as her performing instrument. She is the first in Asia ever to have earned such an honor. Since her return to Taiwan in 2000 after she earned her Master’s Degree, she was appointed an instructor in the Music Faculty at the University of Tong Hai, and during this period of time Chen held numerous solo concerts, released several CD albums, written a complete and systematic curriculum as teaching material for recorder education, and formed her ensemble “Meng-Heng Chen Recorder Ensemble”. Chen’s contribution to musical education is not limited to advanced level recorder performance. She dedicated part of her time as instructor to several recorder ensembles for teachers, and has been invited as judge to competitions of all levels. Besides her busy schedule as an educator, Chen is patriotic in terms of promoting Taiwan and the achievements of Taiwanese recorder performance to the rest of the world. In 2007, she leaded a team of 12 recorder performers and visited the Longy Music School Historic Musical Fest, where she gave a full performance concert and joint historic musical performance concert series. And in 2005, together with 3 other recorder performers, Chen formed the “Meng-Heng Chen Recorder Ensembles”. In the same year, she leaded her ensemble to winning the gold medal at the “Japan International Recorder Competition” During her stay in Boston as a doctoral candidate, Chen was the first ranking recorder performer for the Boston University Baroque Orchestra, performing in numerous operas, chamber music, and symphony orchestras. In 2008, she took the solo part in the concerto music performance with the orchestra as the chief recorder performer. In 2010, Chen graduated and earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University with distinction, and was awarded with “Student Presentation Honor Award” by the Boston University. Since her excellent performance after graduated, she got the award of the notable alumni in the Boston University. |
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