Department of Chinese Music, Tainan National University of the Arts.
Yun-chen Liu began playing the pipa at the age of 9 under the guidance of Teacher Lu Mei-Duan. She subsequently studied under Professor Tang Liang-Hsing and Teacher Tu Chieh-Ming, and received instruction from renowned Chinese pipa performers and educators including Li Guang-Zu, Zhao Jie, Chen Yin, Jiang Yang, Wang Zi-Jing, and Lan Wei-Wei. Years of immersive training have built a solid foundation for her musicality.
Throughout her pipa career, she has accumulated extensive stage and competition experience. In 2013, she was invited to record the album Fruitful Results, performing Dian. In the same year, she won First Prize with Distinction at the Tainan International Music Competition and Second Prize with Distinction at the National Student Music Competition with the same piece. Also in 2013, she performed with Wuji Ensemble in "Zen & Qin As One – Images of Dunhuang Series III" at Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium in Hong Kong.
In 2015, she served as the lead performer for Moonlit Night on the Spring River in the DVD recording Teaching Excellence Project – The Dawn of Modern Chinese Music in Taiwan with the Tainan National University of the Arts Chinese Orchestra. That same year, she won First Prize with Distinction in the Pipa Solo category at the National Student Music Competition. In 2016, as part of the Yilan County Government delegation representing Taiwan, she performed at the Children's Folklore & Folk Arts Festival in the San Francisco Bay Area and Madeira. In the same year, she performed the Taiwan premiere of Han Zi in the "Profound Emotions" teacher-student concert with Teacher Tu Chieh-Ming at the Magic School of Green Technologies, National Cheng Kung University.
During her academic years, she also explored various musical disciplines including piano, liuqin, zhongruan, guqin, sanxian, and vocal music. This diverse artistic background contributes to her performing style, which is characterized by a natural, rich, unpretentious, and sincerely grounded stage presence with steady and powerful charisma.