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Muscatine Symphony Orchestra 2020-2021
Fourth MasterWorks Concert– March 13, 2021
Peter and the Dueling Pianos
2019-2020
Howe Foundation Young
Artist Competition
Winner
Jonathan Chen, piano
Jonathan Chen is a junior at Iowa City West High School. He started playing the
piano at the age of six. Currently studying with Feilin Lin Murray and Dr. Jack Winerock,
Jonathan is the winner of the 2020 Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Iowa
State Senior Piano and the 2020 Howe Foundation Young Artist Competition. He has won
the two highest levels (E and F) of the Iowa Music Teachers Association Pre-College state
piano auditions and has been a prize winner at the Steinway Senior Piano Competition, the
Chopin Youth Piano Competition, and the Fifth Paderewski International Piano
Competition. He was the alternate winner of the 2017 MTNA Iowa State Junior Piano
Competition and the 2019 MTNA Iowa State Senior Piano Competition.
Jonathan has also taken lessons with Dr. Mei-Hsuan Huang and Dr. Alan Huckleberry .
Additionally, Jonathan plays the oboe and was selected for Iowa's All-State Orchestra as an
oboist.
Jonathan is an accompanist at the Preucil School of Music and has also co-founded and cur-
rently runs a classical music charity club, Cadenza, at his high school.
