{"id":1568,"date":"2026-09-10T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berlinerklavierfesttage.com\/?page_id=1568"},"modified":"2026-09-28T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:10:06","slug":"david-chen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/berlinerklavierfesttage.com\/de\/david-chen","title":{"rendered":"David Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-fnkji8sw alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-u5rgzmke\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-info-box uagb-block-x0lkfvsn uagb-infobox__content-wrap  uagb-infobox-icon-above-title uagb-infobox-image-valign-top\"><div class=\"uagb-ifb-content\"><div class=\"uagb-ifb-title-wrap\"><p class=\"uagb-ifb-title-prefix\">Switzerland\/Argentinia, 2008<\/p><h1 class=\"uagb-ifb-title\">David Chen<\/h1><\/div><p class=\"uagb-ifb-desc\">David was born in 2008 in a family of musicians. His father is pianist and composer Vladimir Sverdlov Ashkenazy and his mother Lyda Chen Argerich is a lawyer and viola player.<br>David discovered piano playing with Professor Elena Ashkenazy, his grandmother. Aged five and a half, he started piano lessons and studied ten years under Professor Serguei<br>Milstein. David gave his first concert performance in the 2016 Lugano Progetto Argerich, playing 4 hands<br>with his famous grandmother Martha Argerich. He has participated in the national 2019 Swiss Musical Youth Competition , receiving 1rst Prize<br>with distinction in the Finals.<br>David also obtained the 1rst Prize with distinction in the 2018 and 2020 editions of Stuttgart International Karl Adler Jugend Competition , and Second Prize in the Concours de piano Gen\u00e8ve<br>Internationale Genthod.<br>He has been playing recitals and chamber music programs in venues such as Victoria Hall Switzerland , Luzern KKL . Beppu Beacon Hall Japan, Ch\u00e2teau de Chantilly France , Leiszhalle<br>Hamburg Germany, Guangzhou and Nanjing National Theaters , Shanghai Grand Theater China . After his debut as soloist with orchestra in Stuttgart Lieder Hall Germany in 2022 , David performed in Salle Franz Liszt and Victoria Hall Geneva Switzerland, as well as Grand<br>Esplanades theater in Singapore.<br>In 2026 , David made his recital debut in Seoul Arts Center Inchoon Hall , performed Tchaikowsky Piano Concerto No 1 in Bangkok and Singapore Victoria Hall , Poulenc double piano concerto in<br>Geneva Victoria Hall , and Beethoven piano concerto N\u00b01 in Kurhaus Baden Baden. He has participated in various masterclasses , benefiting from the teachings of Professors Mira<br>Marchenko , Elizabeth Leonskaja , Arie Vardi and Stephen Kovacevich among others. David followed the pre-college cursus of Haute Ecole de Musique Geneva under Professor Mladen Tcholitch. He is studying in Musica Mundi School of Music parallel to playing concerts in Europe<br>and Asia.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image alignleft uagb-block-qplssr2o wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-left\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/berlinerklavierfesttage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/David-by-Hanna-Desmond-colour-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-1640\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" title=\"David by Hanna Desmond colour (1)\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1568","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"campaignId":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"trp-custom-language-flag":false,"depicter-thumbnail":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"scapeshot-single-post-page":false,"scapeshot-slider":false,"scapeshot-featured":false,"scapeshot-team":false,"scapeshot-logo-slider":false,"scapeshot-portfolio":false,"scapeshot-service":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"yreshef@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/berlinerklavierfesttage.com\/de\/author\/yreshefgmail-com"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinerklavierfesttage.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinerklavierfesttage.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinerklavierfesttage.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinerklavierfesttage.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinerklavierfesttage.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/berlinerklavierfesttage.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/berlinerklavierfesttage.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1568\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinerklavierfesttage.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}