Principal Sheng of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Chen joined the HKCO in 2011 and took his current position in 2016. A native of Taichung, Taiwan, Chen won first prize multiple times in the sheng solo category of music competitions in Taiwan. He later graduated from the NTUA with a major in sheng and from the College of Human Ecology at the Shih Chien University in Taipei with a major in piano, respectively. His teachers included many virtuosi in Chinese and Western music - Kuo Hsiu-Jung, Chang Ching-Lung, Zhu Daming and Tsai Pei-Chen.
In November 2015, Chen curated the first sheng ensemble concert for the HKCO, ‘Sheng Clusters’, in which he performed and premiered several of his new compositions and arrangements. In the HKCO concert ‘Music Styles of Virtuosi North and South’ held in April 2016, Chen gave the Hong Kong premiere of the Chinese orchestral arrangement of the sheng concerto, Solar Planet. He reprised the role of curator for the sheng ensemble concert, ‘Resonating Reeds – Shengs and Pipes from Around the World’ in October that year, and released several of his arrangements and original works on that occasion. In June 2017, he was a member of the sheng ensemble playing Rainbow at the concert, ‘The Lustrous Pearl - In Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Establishment of the HKSAR’. In March and September 2018, he performed the sheng concerto, Ambush on All Sides, with the HKCO at the concert ‘Liu Bang, Xiang Yu and the Terra Cotta Warriors’, a programme of the 46th Hong Kong Arts Festival, as well as on its Singapore Tour. He was invited to perform the organ and sheng concerto, Reeds, at the Opening Ceremony of the WeiWuYing Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in October 2018, and the ‘MADE in Taiwan’ concert organised by Kwang Hwa Information and Culture Center in November 2018. He later toured Europe at KKL Luzern, Switzerland, Bozar Brussels, Belgium, Müpa Budapest, Hungary and Kulturpalast Dresden, Germany in January and February 2020, followed by a performance at Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore in February 2023. In 2025, he performed Reeds in Beijing (June) and Korea (October). Commissioned by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in 2025, he composed the 37-reed sheng concerto Yisi: Revolution Hexagram, which received its world premiere in January 2026.
In 2022, Chen was commissioned by the NCO to compose the zhongruan concerto Tai Chi as the compulsory work for the finals of the NCO Music Competition 2023 ‘Rising Star of Zhongruan’.
