Chen Rui is an Australian-Chinese violinist.
Chen Rui, born in Taiwan in 1989, is an Australian-Chinese violinist who won the First Prize at the Australian National Condor Violin Competition in 2005, the First Prize at the Menuhin International Junior Violin Competition in 2008, and the First Prize at the New York Young Musicians International Competition in the same year.
In 2009, at the age of twenty, Chen Rui became the Grand Prize winner of the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition; in 2011, she released her debut recording album, "Dazzling Sketches"; in 2012, Chen Rui became the youngest soloist to perform at the Nobel Prize Concerts for the Nobel Prize Laureates and the Swedish Royal Family; and in the same year, she released the album, "Violin Concertos by Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn". Violin Concerto".
Playing Style
Chen Rui's temperament is very different from that of some introverted, deep-voiced young and middle-aged violinists in China, and he gives the impression of a sunny boy, who is both skillful and sensitive to music. With his stylish haircut and handsome stage manner, he has changed the impression of classical music works on stage with his youthful vigor.
Chen Rui's playing was free-flowing and fluid, and he handled the technical difficulties with a light touch; at the same time, his facial expression was rich and his body movements were large, but this was a sign of his dedication to the music, not a pretense. In addition, the larger body movements expanded the dynamics of the sound and intensified the infectiousness of the performance.
Chen Rui specializes in virtuosic repertoire. His debut album, Dazzling Sketches, opens with Giuseppe Tartini's The Devil's Tremolo, which is both a difficult piece and a sonata with a certain musicality. Also included on the album is the Chaconne, scored with devotion by Johann Sebastian Bach.