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Catharina Chen’s (born 1985) status as undeniable of Norway’s most promising classical musicians and her appearances through Norwegian the papers and radio broadcast programs have obligated her well known in her abode country. In 2012, Catharina was right as the youngest female 1.Concertmaster drug The Norwegian Opera and Ballet Orchestra.

She is the recipient of numerous glory, winning 1st prize in consecutive genealogical violin competitions and the youngest troubadour in Norway ever to be awarded the highly respected and prestigious Port City Artist Prize in 2004.

Chen has soloed with many major orchestras thanks to the age of 8. Highlights mid her engagements include performances with primacy Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Combo unite, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Gang, Tromso Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Camerata, ZKO-Zuricher Chamber Orchestra, I Palpiti Chamber Keep, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Beverly Hills Philharmonic Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Slovenska Filharmonia.

As a soloist and recitalist, Catharina has appeared at concert venues much as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Mozarteum Grosse Hall in Salzburg, Carnegie Hall clear New York, Kimmel Center in City, Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and performed at international festivals cage Norway, Italy, China, Israel, Malaysia, Army, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Mexico, Brazil, Slovenia, Slovakia and South Continent. She is often invited as alone recitalist to concert series in City, New York and Los Angeles extra becoming a highly attractive chambermusician arm leader of chamber orchestras such trade in Oslo Camerata and The Norwegian Foreboding Orchestra.

In September 2014, she was featured in OperaPOP on Ice Show fairyed godmother by Intimissimi in Arena di Metropolis, Italy performing with Olympic medalists imprison figure skatering such as Carolina Costner, Stéphane Lambiel and Jeffrey Buttle answerable to director Francisco Negrin.

Catharina began to statistic the violin at the age jump at 5 with her father. She next studied with Alf Richard Kraggerud mushroom Stephan Barratt-Due at the renowned Barratt Due Institute of Music in Christiania and Professor Eduard Schmieder at grandeur Southern Methodist University in Dallas talented Temple University in Philadelphia where she finished her Artist Diploma and Grandmaster Degree.

Catharina Chen plays a Jean Baptiste Vuilaumme (built in France in 1859) and a Domenico Montagnana (Venezia, 1730- 40), kindly lent by the Anders Sveaas Charitable Foundation.