About
Eddy Chen is an Taiwanese-Australian violinist, part of comedy duo TwoSet Violin.
Violinist Eddy Chen has appeared as a soloist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Youth Symphony and Cordes Spiritus of St Andrews Orchestra. In 2010, he was awarded top prize in the Queensland Young Instrumentalist Competition. In that same year, Eddy was a finalist of the prestigious National Youth Concerto Competition. He was also the Queensland finalist of the National Young Virtuoso Award in 2014. In the same year, Eddy received his Bachelor of Music at the Queensland Conservatorium, where he studied under the guidance of Michele Walsh. During his studies there, he won several scholarship prizes, including the Brisbane Club Award, Ronald Clifford, Basil Jones Sonata, Owen Fletcher and Paganini Prizes. As an orchestral musician, Eddy has been a casual violinist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra since 2011 and with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 2014. He has been concertmaster of the Queensland Conservatorium Opera Orchestra in 2012 and 2014. He has also performed with the Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) and Queensland Youth Symphony (QYS) in established venues throughout Australia and Europe. In the 2009 season, he was the associate and acting concertmaster of QYS.