Huifang Chen

Violin

As a dynamic and diverse musician, violinist, and conductor, Huifang Chen enjoys a dual career as a performer and an educator. She graduated from the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied violin with Jascha Brodsky. Ms. Chen has been the Music Director of the Greater Miami youth Symphony since 2008 and has been the Concertmaster of the South Florida Symphony Orchestra since 2020. Recently she was also appointed as the Associate Conductor of the South Florida Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Chen also teaches violin at the New World School of the Arts in Miami and at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach. During the summers, she performs and teaches at the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. Ms. Chen was a member of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra from 1994 until its demise in 2003.

As a violin soloist, Ms. Chen has appeared with many orchestras around the globe including the Taipei Symphony Orchestra and the New Taoyuan Philharmonic in Taiwan, the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic. She has also appeared multiple times as a soloist with the Dreyfoos Philharmonic Orchestra in West Palm Beach performing the Brahms, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos. Chen was featured as the soloist in the first virtual concert with the South Florida Symphony Orchestra during the pandemic in 2020 playing Mozart’s Turkish Violin Concerto. In summer 2022, she toured Ireland in a concert tour with pianist Catherine Lan as the Duo Formosa. Together they dazzled audiences in four different cities. Ms. Chen was the winner of the 1999 Young Concert Artist awarded by the National Concert Hall of Taipei, Taiwan, and a Concerto Competition Winner in 2003 at the University of Miami where she received her Master’s degree in 2005. 

As a committed violin pedagogue, many of Ms. Chen’s students are frequent winners at both local and international competitions. Many are now attending top music schools such as the Curtis Institute of Music and Juilliard School, and many others are now members of professional orchestras.

As a recording artist, she has appeared on dozens of award winning CDs for artists such as the Bee Gees, Natalie Cole, Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Ricky Martin, Jon Secada, Shakira and Barbra Streisand. In 2012, she recorded Thomas Sleeper’s Violin Concerto with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic and the CD of this recording was released in 2014 on the Albany Label. Most recently, she was featured as a soloist in John Gottsch’s Princess Yurievskaya CD with the South Florida Symphony Orchestra, which was released in 2021 on the Naxos Label.