AUDREY CHEN, CELLO

Praised for her “lyricism of dramatic intensity” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “longevity of phrasing” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), Washington State native Audrey Chen has performed at leading venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, and Sumitomolife Izumi Hall. She has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Symphony and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and is a frequent guest artist with the Jupiter Chamber Players and Boston Chamber Music Society. Audrey performs most actively as the cellist of the Terra String Quartet, first prize winners of the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition and the most recent Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music.

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Audrey has been featured at festivals including Yellow Barn, Music@Menlo, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Tanglewood Music Center, the Perlman Music Program, Taos School of Music, and Sarasota Music Festival. A graduate of the Harvard/New England Conservatory dual-degree program, Audrey earned a B.A. in Molecular Biology from Harvard University and a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Laurence Lesser and Lluís Claret, before completing her Doctor of Musical Arts at the CUNY Graduate Center under the guidance of Marcy Rosen. During her doctoral studies, she taught chamber music at Hunter College and was named a 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans. Outside of music, Audrey enjoys watching films and working on jigsaw puzzles.

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Updated July 2026