Bai Chi Chen, Cello (USA)

 

Ms. Bai-Chi Chen has had extensive experience both as a performer and teacher. Having been a member of the Goucher piano trio at Goucher College in Towson MD where she taught for over 10 years.

She also performed often in string quartets and cello recitals in the Baltimore metropolitan area. She was also twice invited as a performer at the World Cello Congress.

 

Ms. Chen has been teaching at The Peabody Institute since 1990. As a full time faculty member, she teaches pedagogy, Suzuki cello and adult cello and serves as the coordinator of the Suzuki cello program at the Preparatory. She deeply believes in Dr. Suzuki’s teaching philosophy in that “every child can” but also committed in educating the whole person regardless of the age or ability level of the student.

 

Her love for the humankind led her to believe, as Pablo Casals once said “perhaps it is music that will save the world”. Ms. Chen was also an invited guest clinician at the fourth Asia Suzuki Conference in Malaysia in 2011 and the recipient of excellence in teaching award at Peabody in 2009.

 

Ms. Chen studied with Margaret Rowell at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and with Aldo Parisot at the Yale school of music where she earned her master of music degree.

She received her training as a Suzuki teacher at the Hartt School of music in Hartford Connecticut, Ithaca College in New York and School for Strings in New York City.

 

To see a sample of her work at Peabody Preparatory Program: open their newsletter: http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/preparatory/departments/strings/ypsp/YPSPNewsletter %201012%20lowres.pdf