Chih-Yuan Chen | Clarinet · Saxophone · Crossover Musician

2024 Evergreen Symphony Music Camp | Concerto Soloist

2024 New Taipei City Cultural Affairs Department arts grant — “A Musical Dialogue: Jazz Ensemble and Dance”

2025 Third Prize, Taichung Instrument Festival Saxophone Competition | Taipei Jazz Festival

Invited performances and lectures: National Palace Museum (Taipei and Southern Branch), Feng Chia University, National Changhua University of Education, National Defense University

✨ Volkswagen feature interview | A jazz musician’s driver story

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2024 Evergreen Symphony Music Camp Orchestra
Interactive · Jazz Lab

🎷 Jazz Lab — interactive, and free to explore

Swing rhythm, blues improvisation games and sound experiments — find out what jazz actually is by playing with it.
Warm up with the notes on the right (🔊 turn your sound on) →

Enter Jazz Lab → And don’t miss the interactive clarinet page: assembly game and register demos

Selected Performances

Selected Performances
2024 Evergreen Symphony Music Camp concerto soloist
2024 · Evergreen Symphony Orchestra

Evergreen Music Camp Orchestra | Concerto Soloist

Selected by audition to perform Artie Shaw’s Clarinet Concerto with Professor Wen-Chen Chuang and the Evergreen Symphony Music Camp Orchestra.
 2025 Taipei Jazz Festival
2025 · Taipei Jazz Festival

Taipei Jazz Festival

Selected for the Taipei All-Star Festival Jazz Big Band, performing on the outdoor plaza of the Taipei Music Center alongside Taiwan’s leading jazz musicians.
 2023 Sakai Blues Festival, Japan
2023 · Japan Sakai Blues Festival

Sakai Blues Festival, Japan

A first public performance in Japan. Friday Quintet, from Taipei, brought the energy of blues and jazz to the streets of Sakai, a city woven from history and culture.
 2023 NPM Southern Branch Afternoon Tea concert
2023 · National Palace Museum (Southern Branch)

National Palace Museum Southern Branch | Afternoon Tea Concerts

Invited to the museum’s “Encounters at the Southern Branch — Afternoon Tea” concert series, presenting a jazz programme in the ground-floor hall with a simultaneous official livestream.
See the full performance record and timeline (including lectures)→

Available for Booking

Our Services
Performance · Ensemble and concert bookings

Refined jazz line-ups / crossover sets for arts festivals

Available for corporate galas, brand launches, weddings, private parties and arts festivals of every kind. Repertoire ranges from elegant classical to classic swing, mellow bossa nova and contemporary crossover arrangements, with the line-up tailored to the character of your event:

  • Friday Quintet：Full jazz quintet — rich and powerful, ideal for large festivals and main stages
  • Mellow jazz trio or quartet: clarinet or saxophone with piano and double bass, for a stylish and elegant atmosphere
  • Crossover programmes: jazz musicians in live dialogue with dancers on stage
Lectures & Education · Talks and masterclasses

“Music Backpacker” talks / improvisation for wind players

Invited by universities (including Feng Chia, NCUE and National Defense University), arts associations and companies to give talks on aesthetics and practice. Drawing on stage and international programming experience, complex musical logic becomes something you can feel:

  • Music Backpacker series: “Travelling with an Instrument” — international stages, inspiration and the stories behind them
  • Music aesthetics: where engineering logic collides with free jazz, opening up a crossover view of improvisation
  • Wind teaching: classical fundamentals on clarinet and saxophone, plus guidance on building jazz lines

Press & Reviews

Testimonials & Press

In a clarinet concerto steeped in jazz, he seemed to transport the audience to a jazz club on a New York street… the soloist’s playing was dashing and full of energy, and the audience was captivated.

— Official review, 2024 Evergreen Symphony Music Camp “In Concert”

He brings the free spirit of blues and jazz into a rational frame of mind, writing a striking crossover story with clarinet and saxophone.

— Volkswagen feature interview team

Combining improvisational thinking with wide experience of street performance around the world, with precise and vivid live demonstrations — the most talked-about general-education arts lecture of recent terms.

— Feedback from a university general-education lecture series

A first public performance in Japan. Friday Quintet, from Taipei, brought the energy of blues and jazz to the streets of Sakai, a city woven from history and culture.

— Review, 2023 Sakai Blues Festival, Japan

Contact / Booking

Enquiries welcome for performances, lectures or any kind of collaboration

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