Taiwanese violist Che-Yen Chen has established himself as a prominent recitalist, chamber, and orchestral musician. Principal violist of the San Diego Symphony, he captured the first prize of the 2003 William Primrose Viola Competition and “Yuri Bashmet prize” of the 2003 Lionel Tertis Viola Competition and will be making his New York concerto debut with the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra as the winner of NASO Concerto Competition. He has performed throughout United States and abroad in venues such as the Alice Tully, Carnegie, Jordan, Merkin, Snape Malting Concert, Taiwan National Concert, Weill Recital, Wigmore Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, and Kimmel Center. An advocate of chamber music, Mr. Chen is a founding member of the Formosa Quartet, was a member of Chamber Music Society Two at Lincoln Center, a Jupiter Chamber Player, and took part in Musicians from Marlboro and Musician from Ravinia tours. His festival appearances include Chamber Music International, the Aldeburgh, Bath International Music, Kingston Chamber Music, Marlboro, Primrose, and Ravinia festivals, La Jolla SummerFest, International Viola Congress, Mainly Mozart, and Taiwan Connection. Mr. Chen began studying viola at the age of six. A four-time winner of the National Viola Competition in Taiwan, he came to the United States and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School under the guidance of Michael Tree, Joseph de Pasquale, and Paul Neubauer.