As part of the Summer Organ Academy, masterclasses are offered nightly at 7 pm from June 28 – 30. The first masterclass is on Wednesday, June 28 at 7 pm at Metropolitan United Church with Chelsea Chen.  Auditing spots are still available! Register here if you’re interested. 

American organist and composer Chelsea Chen is internationally renowned for her concerts of “rare musicality” and “lovely lyrical grandeur,” and a compositional style that is “charming” and “irresistible” (Los Angeles Times). Originally from San Diego, California, she studied the organ at The Juilliard School with Paul Jacobs and John Weaver and at Yale University with Thomas Murray. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan where she collected folk songs and composed new music for the organ. Now based in Zürich, Switzerland, she is a concert organist with frequent performances in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Recent highlights include performing with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the San Diego Symphony, as well as solo concerts at Los Angeles's Disney Hall and Dallas's Meyerson Hall. She collaborates often with New York cellist Joesph Lee and frequently premieres music by composers including Yui Kitamura and Julian Revie. For more information about Chelsea's compositions and concert dates visit her website at www.chelseachen.com.