Violinist Stella Chen has garnered worldwide attention with her first-prize win at the 2019 Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition, followed by receiving the 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award. In 2021-22 she joined the Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two) at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and made her Carnegie Hall recital debut. She was also the first recipient of the Robert Levin Award from Harvard University, the top prize winner of the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition and youngest ever prize winner of the Menuhin Competition. A graduate of the Harvard/New England Conservatory Dual Degree Program, Stella received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology with honors from Harvard University and a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory. Currently, Stella is a C.V. Starr doctoral candidate at the Juilliard School and a professional studies candidate at Kronberg Academy. She plays the ’Huggins’ 1708 Stradivarius violin, generously on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.