In 2021, Chiacheng Sen won the Platinum Medal in the North American International
Virtuoso Music Competition. In previous years, she also won the first prize in the
Australian Vocal and Concerto Competition, second prize in the International Music
Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso in Rome, third prize in the Rising Stars Grand Prix
in Berlin, and American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition which
led to her Carnegie Hall debut. She also won first prize in United States Open Music
Competition, second prize in the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation, Second
prize in International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington DC. When
Chiacheng Sen was 12, she won her first competition in the Creative Art Competition
hosted by Taiwan Television and Min Sheng Bao. She played Jeux D’eau by Ravel
and won a cash prize of 20000 NTD.
Chiacheng Sen received master degree from the New England Conservatory of
Music and doctoral degree in Piano Performance with full scholarship from UC Santa
Barbara. She worked in the UCSB music department as a collaborative piano
teaching assistant for four years, teaching both undergraduate and graduate
students. After graduation in 2011, Chiacheng worked at East Los Angeles College,
Orange County School of the Arts, and Long Beach City College and other music
schools as piano instructor and staff pianist. In 2018, Chiacheng collaborated with
renowned violinist/ composer Jeremy Cohen from Quartet San Francisco in a
memorial concert of Raymond Scott at Colony Theatre. Besides her career as an
extraordinary pianist with wide interests, she also plays with the Orchestra Collective
of Orange County as a violinist.