Organ Anniversary Concert with Chelsea Chen

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Friday, Feb 21, 2025  7:30pm - 9pm

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Chelsea Chen’s dynamic playing has taken her to the far corners of the world. Her solo concerts offer a unique mix of traditional organ repertoire along with piano/orchestral transcriptions and contemporary music. The Los Angeles Times has praised her “rare musicality” and “lovely lyrical grandeur,” and a compositional style that is “charming” and “irresistible.”

Concert and reception afterward are free.

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“New York organist Chelsea Chen [had] urgency, precision and coloration in her virtuoso performance”
– The Hunstville Times

“Chen’s Emmanuel Suite delighted the audience with its rhythmic verve, folkloric accents, and flourishing lyricism.”
– Saarbrücker Zeitung (Germany)

“An artist of great technical and dramatic skill…she is personable, humble and simply appears to be one with the instrument.”
– Palm Beach Daily News

“The range of tonal colors and variety of nuance in texture and style she brought to each work revealed a depth of musicality.”
– Kansas City Star

“Chen drove [the Spreckels organ] like a sports car. She had the beast, and the audience, eating out of her hand. The organ sounded scary good. You could swear the instrument was alive.”
– San Diego Union Tribune