Event: Bake for Hope is the first ever week long BAKING event hosting bake sales across the nation. The event will run May 2nd - 8th, the week before Mothers Day to honor women and mothers dealing with breast cancer and proceeds go to Susan G. Komen local affiliates.
Participation is for everyone. Individuals, groups and businesses can participate. Organize a bake sale, host a location, bake or support with behind the scenes help. Bakeries and restaurants can donate proceeds from a signature item and more. Join Today!
Disney has chosen Bake for Hope in their Give a Day, Get a Day program. So for anyone who volunteers, gets a free ticket to Disney.
See last years video and Join in today! www.BakeforHope.org
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Jie Chen is from Guangdong, the Canton Province of China and as a child, taught herself to play the piano.
Chen is guest soloist to open 2007-08 subscription season for both the El Paso Symphony Orchestra (Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2) and the Rogue Valley Symphony (Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2).
In addition to the discription above, Chen has performed as soloist with the the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia of Poland, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc
Chen has performed piano recitals in major concert venues throughout the United States including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York City, the Terrace Theater in the Kennedy Center, the Bass Performing Arts Center in Fort Worth, the Raymond F. Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Le Petit Trianon Theatre in the Bay area, The Forum in Harrisburg and the Historic Asolo Theater in Sarasota. She has been featured in such prestigious series as the Dame Myra Hess Memorial in Chicago, the Schubert Club in St. Paul and the Gilmore Rising Stars series in Kalamazoo.
Internationally, Chen has performed at the Leipzig Hochschule and the Mendelssohn House in Germany, the San Remo Opera Theatre in Italy, Isrotel Royal Garden, Eilat, Tel Aviv and La Salle Cortot in Paris.
Chen was Grand Prizewinner at the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, the Washington International Competition for Piano, the Young Concert Artist International Auditions in New York City and PianoArts National Competition in Wisconsin. She was a finalist in the Villa-Lobos International Piano Competition and the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition.
At the age of 13, Chen was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music as the recipient of a merit-based full tuition scholarship where she held the Institute's Gay Elliot Scott Fellowship. In 2006, Curtis awarded her the Festorazzi Prize for Best Pianist of the Year.
In 2005, Chen released a CD of works by Mozart, Babajanian, Albeniz, Brahms and Balakirev on the Schubert Club's 10,000 Lakes label. Chen recently recorded transcriptions of traditional Chinese music by contemporary Chinese composers for the Naxos label due to be released this Fall.