UO Today interview: Joyce Chen, Historical Keyboards, University of Oregon

12/02/2024 28 min
UO Today interview: Joyce Chen, Historical Keyboards, University of Oregon

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Joyce Wei-Jo Chen is an assistant professor of Historical Keyboards in the School of Music and Dance at the University of Oregon. As a solo harpsichordist, Professor Chen has performed throughout the United States, France, Belgium, and Taiwan. Chen is also a Ph.D. candidate in Historical Musicology at Princeton University and expects to defend her dissertation, “Musica Experientia/Experimentum: Acoustics and Artisanal Knowledge in the Global Seventeenth Century,” in May 2024.

In addition, Chen holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Harpsichord Performance from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley.

Chen joined the UO faculty in fall 2023.

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