Tania Chen is a concert pianist and free improviser.

She has performed in the UK, Japan, Europe and USA, playing the music of experimental composers John Cage, Morton Feldman and Cornelius Cardew. She has worked with Earle Brown in 2001 for the Earle Brown concert Union Chapel, and she will be working with Christian Wolff in London June 2010. She has also premiered and performed piano works by contemporary composers such as Michael Parsons, Laurence Crane, James Saunders and Andrew Poppy. Tania has sung songs on the piano by Chris Newman and recently has been a guest vocalist for Newman’s Berlin-based band Miss Moth.

Tania Chen has collaborated with film makers such as Jayne Parker, and in May 2007 she performed alongside Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars in the Tate Modern “Sleep” all night event in the Turbine Hall, playing Satie's 'Vexations', accompanied by a screening of Andy Warhol's film 'Sleep'.

She is equally known for her passion for free and experimental jazz improvisation, performing on piano and she also enjoys the exploration of sonorities of found objects, toys, toy piano, electronics and digital iphone apps. She regularly performs in the UK and Europe with improvisers including Steve Beresford, Mark Sanders, John Edwards, Lol Coxhill, Dominic Lash, Seb Rochford, and Guillaume Viltard.

Tania curates the series Magnitude Music and invites performers at home and internationally to perform.

Tania was awarded a place at the Royal College of Music and continued her postgraduate studies Goldsmiths College studying with John Tilbury.

She has recorded with Radio 3, Resonance FM, worked commercially for films, and has a growing number of releases on iTunes. Amongst several record labels she has previously recorded for, Tania now records for the Knitted Records label.

The music that you are now listening to is an extract from Tania’s performance of Cornelius Cardew’s Piano Sonata III