Chen Yi (simplified Chinese: 陈怡; traditional Chinese: 陳怡; pinyin: Chén Yí) (born April 4, 1953) is a Chinese violinist and composer of contemporary classical music.
The Family Name is Chen.
ALBUMS
Chen Yi, N. Currier*, S. Currier*, Tsontakis*, Patrick Yim, Kiu Tung Poon
Digital Mist: Works For Violin And Piano
2022, CD, Naxos
Chen Yi, PRISM Quartet, Conservatory Wind Symphony, University of Missouri, Steven D. Davis
Ba Yin (The Eight Sounds)
2019, CD, Album, XAS Records
Chen Yi - Lizhou Liu, David Russell (7), Guowei Wang*, Mira Wang, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
Concertos For String Instruments
2018, SACD, Album, BMOP/sound, 
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, Contemporary/Chinese Classical
Zhou Long, Chen Yi, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Darrell Ang
Symphony 'Humen 1839'
2015, CD, Album, Naxos
Zhou Long, Doming Lam, Alexina Louie, Tan Dun, Chen Yi - Susan Chan
Echoes Of China (Contemporary Piano Music)
2015, CD, Naxos
Chen Yi, Carter Enyeart, Members Of The Lubbock Chorale*, Texas Tech University Wind Ensemble, Sarah McKoin
Suite For Cello And Chamber Winds • KC Capriccio • Feng • Woodwind Quintet • Tu
2015
Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Trio - Auerbach* · Chen Yi · Newman* · Schoenfield*
An American Tour
2014, CD, Bridge Records (4)
Jennifer Higdon • Kurt Weill • Chen Yi • Carrie Koffman • Anton Miller • The Hartt School Wind Ensemble • Glen Adsit
Dragon Rhyme
2012, CD, Album, Naxos, ,
, Modern/Contemporary
Jun Qian, Kent McWilliams , Works By Mei-Chun Chen, Bright Sheng, Gao Hong, Chen Yi, Shih-Hui Chen, Ming-Hsiu Yen
East Meets West (Clarinet Music By Chinese Composers)
2012, CD, Album, Albany Records
Raschèr Saxophone Quartet*, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra*, Robin Engelen, Sally Beamish, Steven Stucky, Chen Yi
The Eight Sounds: Works By Sally Beamish, Steven Stucky, Chen Yi
2011, CD, BIS
Zhou Long, Bright Sheng, Chen Yi, Sharon Bezaly, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui
Across The Sea (Chinese-American Flute Concertos)
2011, CD, Album, BIS, 
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, Contemporary
Tang Jianping, Bright Sheng, Ma Shui-long*, Chen Yi - Michala Petri, Copenhagen Philharmonic*
Chinese Recorder Concertos - East Meets West
2010, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album, OUR Recordings
Chen Yi, Lars Hannibal
Melodies
2010, CD, Album, OUR Recordings, 
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, Baroque/Classical/Romantic/Modern
Chen Yi / Third Angle New Music Ensemble
Sound Of The Five
2009, CD, New World Records
Zhou Long, Chen Yi, Beijing New Music Ensemble
Wild Grass: Su (Tracing Back) / Pianogongs / Taiping Drum / Wild Grass / Taigu Rhyme / Monologue / Romance Of Hsiao And Ch'in / Chinese Ancient Dances
2009
Chen Yi + Karen Tanaka + The Azure Ensemble
Invisible Curve
2008, CD, Album, New World Records
Judith Kellock , Music By Donald Reid Womack, Chen Yi, Lawrence Moss, Peter Askim, Toshio Hosokawa
East Meets West
2006, CD, Album, Albany Records
Chen Yi, Behzad Ranjbaran, Samuel Barber — Paul Tobias (3) , Cello — The Virginia Symphony Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta
The American Cello
2004, CD, Albany Records
John Corigliano, Katherine Hoover, Chen Yi, Alexa Still, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares
Pied Piper Fantasy • Medieval Suite • Golden Flute
2004, CD, Album, Koch International Classics, Koch International Classics
Chen Yi, Cho-Liang Lin, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui
Momentum
2003, CD, Album, BIS, BIS, 
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, Contemporary
Chen Yi
Sparkle
1999, CD, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), ,
, Contemporary
Chen Yi - The Women's Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta With Chanticleer
The Music Of Chen Yi
1996, CD, Album, New Albion, ,
, Contemporary
APPEARANCES +
Coalescent Quartet
The Wall Between Us (Is Where We Meet)
2025, CD, Album, Neuma Records
Jamiia Franklin
Enchantment In Sound (Live)
2025, 13xFile, AAC, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, WAV, Album, Jamiia Franklin
Hanni Liang
Voices For Solo Piano
2024, CD, Delphian Records Ltd.
Sarah Cahill
The Future Is Female, Vol. 3 At Play
2023, CD, Album, First Hand Records, 
National Intercollegiate Band
2023 ΚΚΨ / ΤΒΣ National Intercollegiate Band - The Adventures Of Jesse Owens
2023, CD, Album, Mark Records
Yolanda Kondonassis
Five Minutes For Earth
2022, CD, Album, Azica Records
Patrick Yim
Memory
2020, CD, Album, Navona Records
Abby Lloyd, Gail Novak
Chameleon
2020, 14xFile, MP3, Album, Soundset Recordings
Singer Pur
Horizons – Der Geist Weht, Wo Er Will
2019, CD, Album, Oehms Classics
Julia Tom
Origins, Works Drawn From The Past
2019, CD, Album, Etcetera (3)
Brian Arreola, Kelvin Chan, Wei-En Hsu, Mira Frisch, Wei-Wei Le*
The Boy Who Drew Cats (Songs By Asian & Asian-American Composers)
2019, CD, Album, Albany Records
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
China Symphonic Era (中国交响70年)
2019, 30xCD, Comp + 2xFile, WAV, Shanghai Music Publishing House (SMPH), SLAV
Duo Damiana, Molly Alicia Barth, Dieter Hennings
Castillos de Viento
2018, CD, Album, Innova Recordings
Gloria Cheng
Garlands For Steven Stucky
2018, CD, Album, Bridge Records (4), ,
, Contemporary
Edna Michell, Yehudi Menuhin
The Compassion Project
2018, 2xCD, Album, Innova Recordings, ,
, Modern/Contemporary
PRISM Quartet
Paradigm Lost
2017, CD, Album, XAS Records
University Of Newcastle Chamber Choir
Celebration
2015, CD, Not On Label
Jun Qian
East Meets West II (Clarinet Music By Chinese Composers Overseas)
2014, CD, Album, Albany Records
Bridge Chamber Virtuosi
Bridge Chamber Virtuosi
2014, CD, Con Brio Recordings
The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum
25 X 25 (25 Premieres For 25 Years)
2013, 2xCD, Soundbrush Records, ,
, Contemporary/Choral
Chanticleer
By Request
2012
Linda Wang (2), Alice Rybak
The Stream Flows
2011, CD, Album, Equilibrium,
PRISM Quartet, Music From China
Antiphony
2010, CD, Album, Innova Recordings
Chou Wen-chung
Tribute to Chou Wen-chung
2009, 2xCD, Album, Albany Records, ,
, Modern
Daniil Grishin, Michala Petri
50th Birthday Concert With Kremerata Baltica
2009, CD, OUR Recordings
Various
Intermediate Masterworks For Marimba (24 New Concert Pieces)
2009, 2xCD, Album, Bridge Records (4)
Marya Martin, Colette Valentine
Eight Visions - A New Anthology For Flute And Piano
2009, CD, Naxos
Ying Quartet
Dim Sum
2008, CD, Album, Telarc
Various
Beethoven Und ... & Neue Klaviermusik
2008, 3xCD + Box, Initiativkreis Ruhrgebiet, 
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, Classical/Modern/Contemporary
The Ying Quartet*
United States (The Ying Quartet Play LifeMusic 2)
2006, CD, Album, Quartz (5)
Chicago A Cappella
Electric
2005, CD, Album, Centaur Records
Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui
Dances Of Our Time
2004, CD, Album, BIS, BIS
Various
International Festival Of Contemporary Music - Selected Performances 2002
2003, 2xCD, Comp, Ilkhom XX
The Augustana Band
2003 Tour Of China
2003, CD, Album, Augustana College
周杰倫 Jay*
葉惠美
2003
Evelyn Glennie, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui
Oriental Landscapes
2002, CD, Album, BIS Records AB,
Joey*
Something About You
2002
Chor Leoni Men's Choir
Goin' Home
2001, CD, Skylark Music
Wu Man
Chinese Traditional & Contemporary Music For Pipa And Ensemble
2000, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Nimbus Records
San Francisco Girls Chorus, Sharon J. Paul
Crossroads
2000, CD, Album, Not On Label (San Francisco Girls Chorus Self-released)
Foundation Philharmonic Orchestra & David Snell
Women Write Music - Orchestral Music By 20th Century Women Composers
1999, CD, Album, Atma Classique, ATMA, 
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, Modern/Classical/Contemporary
Chanticleer
Colors Of Love
1999
Min Xiao-Fen
With Six Composers
1998, CD, Avant, 
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, Contemporary/Experimental
Zhou Long, The Shanghai Quartet*, Min Xiao-Fen
The Flowing Stream (Chinese Folk Songs And Tone Poems By Zhou Long)
1998, CD, Delos
Pan Pacific Ensemble
Ambiguous Traces
CD, Albany Records
Thalia Myers
Spectrum 4
2005, 2xCD, Album, Usk Recordings, ,
, Contemporary
Bowling Green Philharmonia, Emily Freeman Brown
New Music From Bowling Green, Volume IV
2005, CD, Albany Records
Edna Michell
Compassion
2001, CD, Comp, Angel Records, ,
, Contemporary
Various
Tellus, The Audio Cassette Magazine #19 - New Music China
1988, Cass, Comp, Whi, Tellus, ,
, Synth-pop/Chinese Classical/Comedy/Experimental/Field Recording/Folk/Score
