Alex Chien was born in 1998. He started taking piano lessons with Ms. Kai Chi Zhu when he was four years old.

Alex is the winner of many piano competitions. He won the grand prize in the 2009 Mondavi Young Artist Competition. He was also the winner of the 2009 Marilyn Mindell Piano Competition. In the 2009 US Open Music Competitions, he won the first place award in the complete Piano Concert category, and a first place award in a solo showcase category.

Last year alone, he won the first place award and the “Most Promising Young Talent” special award in the 9 th International Russian Piano Competition in the Young Musician category, the first place award in 2008 MTAC Piano Concerto Competition (Division I), the Menuhin-Dowling Young Musicians Award, the James Denver Gary Piano Award in Pacific Music Society Annual Competition and the Nafisa Taghioff Prize in the Fremont Symphony's Young Artist Competition and he has performed with the Symphony in two concerts.

Alex was also the first place award winner at the 2008 U.S. Open Music Competition in the piano concerto and solo categories, and he was selected as the Gold of Golden Medalists in the Gold Medalist Showcase Recitals.

Alex has performed regularly in many musical events. Recently, he played at the Peninsula Symphony's Family Concert, and at “A Celebration of Young Artist Concert” of Fremont Symphony Guild. In 2008, he performed in the Junior Bach Festival and in the Steinway Society Young Artists Concert. He also performed at the Piano Fantasia Concert honoring Robert and Margaret Mondavi at Pacific Union Colleage.

His other performance events in 2008 include the Listening Hours at San Jose State University, Pacific Music Society Christmas Gala, Beshoff Mercede-Benz Concert and the benefit concert at the San Francisco Tower. Last year, Alex has performed in master classes by Lang Lang, Jon Nakamatsu, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Ruth Slenczynska and Pascal Nemirovski.

Alex attends the Harker School in San Jose, California. In addition to music, he loves writing and computers.