Jenny Q. Chai
Jenny Q. Chai was born in Shanghai, China on June 23rd, 1983 and is the Pianist. At the age of 40, Jenny Q. Chai biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In August 2010, she released her debut recording New York Love Songs, which features interpretations of works by John Cage and Charles Ives, among others.
In April 2012 she made her Carnegie Hall debut, prompting The New York Times's Anthony Tommasini review in which he noted her 'resourceful technique and sensitivity.' She has also performed at (Le) Poisson Rouge, which according to Vivien Schweitzer, was 'an eclectic program that used unconventional tools' .
In September 2013, she performed a lecture and recital at the Shanghai Symphony Hall. Exactly one year later, Chai performed to a full audience at Spectrum NYC, debuting selections from her next recording, Life Sketches: Piano Music of Nils Vigeland. The performance also included the American debut of Marco Stroppa's "Birichino", and an experimental rendition of Jarosław Kapuściński's piece "Juicy" using Antescofo, featuring animations of fruits.
In October 2014, Chai was a featured performer at the Leo Brouwer Festival in Havana, Cuba, alongside Yo-Yo Ma, Jordi Savall and Bobby McFerrin.
In January 2015, Chai's doctoral dissertation on Marco Stroppa's Miniature Estrose (978-3-659-64847-2) was published.
On September 19, 2015, with fellow pianist Adam Kośmieja, Chai performed Phillippe Manure's "Zone de Turbulence" at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music. The double piano concerto was conducted by Alexander Liebreich, and supported by the Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia (National Radio Symphony Orchestra).
Chai returned to (Le) Poisson Rouge on January 11, 2016 to perform works by Schumann, Stroppa, and Kapuściński, including "Where's Chopin?". The performance saw her integrate her playing with more Antescofo projections.
Chai has recorded for labels such as Deutschlandfunk, Naxos, ArpaViva and MSR. She can also be heard on Andy Akiho's The War Below, Michael Vincent Waller's Five Easy Pieces and Cindy Cox's Hierosgamos. Her latest solo CD (S)yn(e)sth(e)t(e) features works by Andy Akiho, Claude Debussy, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, and Scott Wollschleger and was released by MSR Classics in 2018.
In 2017, Chai performed Jaroslaw Kapuściński's Side Effects at Shanghai Benz-Mercedes Arena. The piece is also part of her 2018 program Sonorous Brushes, which received its London premiere at Chai's Wigmore Hall debut in summer 2017. Sonorous Brushes was repeated to great acclaim at New York City's Spectrum, when the New Yorker described her as “pianist whose dazzling facility is matched by her deep musicality.”