Zixi Chen is a young Chinese pianist currently based in Germany whose artistic achievements have been widely recognized on major international competition platforms and concert stages. He is currently studying at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media with Professor Arie Vardi. Since 2010, he has studied with Professor Minduo Li of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and since 2021 with Professor Yunlin Yang.

In 2026, he won First Prize at the 28th International Scriabin Piano Competition. In 2025, he advanced to the second round of the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. He has also won Third Prize and the Classical Sonata Prize at the 33rd Ettore Pozzoli International Piano Competition, First Prize and the Best Nocturne Performance Award at the Asia-Pacific International Chopin Piano Competition in Korea, as well as prizes at international piano competitions in Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere.

Beyond competitions, He has long been active on the international concert stage. He has appeared with orchestras including the Milan Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Daegu Symphony Orchestra, the Grosseto City Symphony Orchestra, and the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, and has performed under conductors such as Antoni Wit and Grigor Palikarov. His concert appearances have taken him to important venues across Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, France, Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, and mainland China.

His playing is distinguished by profound musical expressiveness, a disciplined sense of style, and a rich, finely nuanced command of tone. Piano Art magazine praised his performances as “powerful and emotionally rich, rewarding repeated listening.” The official magazine of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute described him as possessing “the brilliant style in his bones,” while the UK’s Gramophone praised him for “transformed rarely disregarded work into a dazzling fireworks display... unassailably nailed” The legendary pianist Martha Argerich has described him as “an interesting pianist and a sensitive artist.”