Sharon Chen

Sharon Chen is a composer-performer with backgrounds in piano and violin, creating original works for piano, chamber, and orchestral ensembles. A graduate of Harvard College in Music and East Asian Languages & Civilizations, her work draws on both Western musical traditions and East Asian philosophy, including the Wu Xing concept of cyclical change and dynamic balance. Her recent projects include Emergence and Fire , complementary piano cycles exploring transformation through personal and cosmological perspectives. Her music has received 18 million Spotify streams and over 1.52 million Pandora streams, including 38 editorial placements across Pandora's curated stations and programming, reflecting strong listener retention and radio engagement. Her catalog includes The Dragon Waltz, The Phoenix Waltz, Where Light Sleeps and piano EPs Emergence, Lettre pour toi and Trois petits morceaux . She has reached listeners internationally across North America, Europe, and East Asia, with her strongest listener base in the United States. Beyond streaming, listeners discover her work through platforms such as Pandora and Instagram, purchasing sheet music for performance and study; le courage d’aimer, The Phoenix Waltz, Nocturne in C Minor and Fantasia in A Minor - Piano Solo have been taken up by performers, showing active repertoire engagement. Sheet music available on her website. Selected crossover recordings under her Hua Mulan moniker. https://www.sharonelainechen.com/