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Jonathan Chen, piano
Howe Foundation Young Artist Competition Winner
Jonathan Chen is fifteen years old and a sophomore at Iowa City West High School. He
started playing piano at the age of six.
Currently studying with Feilin Lin, Jonathan has won the two highest levels of the Iowa
Music Teachers Association Pre-College state piano auditions and has been a prizewinner at
the Steinway Senior Piano Competition and the Chopin Youth Piano Competition. He was
the alternate winner of the 2017 Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Iowa State
Junior Performance Competition and the 2019 MTNA Iowa State Senior Performance
Competition and is the winner of this year’s Muscatine Symphony Orchestra’s Howe
Foundation Young Artist Competition.
Jonathan has also taken lessons with Dr. Mei-Hsuan Huang, Dr. Alan Huckleberry, and Dr.
Jack Winerock. He is a piano accompanist at the Preucil School of Music and also plays the
oboe.
Recently Jonathan co-founded a classical music charity club, Cadenza, at his high school.
He will be performing the first movement of Camille Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 in
G minor.
