Passionate teacher, chamber musician for live performances and recording sessions, music arranger, and transcription specialists for hire
Wedding / Social or Corporate Events / Birthday Celebration Live Music Performances
Specialised in live performances for Weddings, Social Events, Networking Night, Roadshow, Birthday Celebration. etc. Phyllis & friends all have at least 10 years of experience with their respective instruments and have graduated from music conservatories. Available for solo or accompaniment at weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, house and corporate /private events, community grassroots events or hotel lounges. Open to renumeration discussion. Able to bring own keyboard synthesiser (to be plugged into your venue's sound system for ballrooms) for venues without a piano. Email us for info such as event, venue, promo materials, live samples, complexity of requirements and duration of play (inclusive of wait time if any) for a friendly discussion and quotation.
professional piano accompanist / collaborative pianist / corporate event
Experienced professional collaborative pianist / accompanist for hire - exams / audition / performances. Fee depends on the repertoire and student level and location. Past collaborators include winners from Singapore International Violin Competition, Isaac Stern International Violin Competition, International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition (Helsinki, Finland), Queen Elisabeth Competition, and International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Email us for info such as repertoire requirements and location for a friendly discussion and quotation.
Recital with Ting-Wei Chen, Solo Flutist of Tonkünstler-Orchester. Lecturer of MDW Vienna
André Jolivet: Chant de Linos
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Recital with Yu-Ting Chen, violinist of The Philadelphia Orchestra
Richard Strauss: Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18
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Recital with Serena Huang, concert violinist
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2
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String quartet with Nancy Zhou, Boris Borgolotto, and Marc Girard Garcia
Felix Mendelssohn: The String Quartet No. 2 in a minor, Op. 13
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Piano duo with Giselle Hsin, concert pianist
M. Ravel: La Valse for 2 pianos
WatchMore about our Artistic Director
Taiwanese violist/violinist/pianist Phyllis Yen made her concerto debut at the age of 9 in Kaohsiung City Cultural Centre in the Yamaha Annual Celebration Concert as a pianist. Since then, she has undergone serious conservatory-level training in music schools and has been awarded several top prizes in National Music Competitions in pre-college years both as pianist and violinist. She obtained her master of performance from the Institute of Music, National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan as a recipient of the prestigious ZyXEL scholarship.
She actively appears onstage both as violist, pianist and violinist. In 2012, she gave the Taipei-premiere performance of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIII for solo violin. She has also appeared as both soloist and chamber musician in Asian Composers League Conference & Festival (2011), Taipei International New Music Festival (2012, 2013), ChiaoTa Chamber Ensemble (2012), Burapha Music and Performing Arts International Festival (2013) in Thailand, and the Great Mountains Music Festival & School (2013, 2014) in Korea, the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School & Festival (2015) in the United States, and the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra (2016) in Germany.
An active chamber musician, Ms Yen has collaborated with such musicians as violist Hsin-Yun Huang (faculty, the Juillard School), violinist Nancy Zhou, Sirena Huang, Richard Lin, Yu-Ting Chen, and flutist Ting-Wei Chen, just to name a few.
She has studied or participated in masterclasses with pianists Robert Shannon, Michael Lewin, Ning An, Ju-Ying Song, Gloria Chien, Marian Hahn, Jane Coop, and Wu Han, violinists Qian Zhou, Vesselin Paraschkevov, Jonathan Crow, Ik-Hwan Bae, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Ani Kavafian, Laurie Smukler, Kai Vogler, Valeriy Sokolov, cellist David Finckel, Li-Wei Qin, Jan Vogler, Joel Krosnick, along with violists Hsin-Yun Huang, Paul Neubauer, Katherine Murdock, Maxim Rysanov, Paul Silverthorne and Hungwei Huang. In 2015, under the invitation of Ms Laurie Smukler, she was invited to study viola performance with full fellowship in the Bard College Conservatory of Music, New York, which she subsequently turned down.
Phyllis also composes and makes arrangements in her spare time. Her orchestral arrangements have been performed by the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra and National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. She occasionally acts as a score editor for video games with composer Chamber Chu, such as the beloved “DEEMO -Reborn- OST”.
In addition to her musical achievements, Phyllis holds a bachelor degree in Physics and a master in Astronomy from National Tsing Hua University. She won the “Be An Integral Astronomer” competition held by the European Space Agency, and obtained a fellowship to study in the Theory Group in the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London. Her scientific publications can be found in several scientific journals.
Phyllis has freelanced with the Metropolitan Festival Orchestra in Singapore and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.