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Yu-Chen Tseng

Yu-Chen Tseng, a versatile musician born in Taiwan and currently residing in New York, excels as a jazz pianist, classical violinist, composer, and arranger. Graduating from the National Taiwan University of Arts with a focus on classical violin and later from Queens College in New York with a specialization in jazz piano, Yu-Chen honed his craft under mentors such as Vincent Hsu, Luis Perdomo, Antonio Hart, David Berkman, Michael Mossman, Dennis Mackrel, and Jeb Patton. Recognized with the Roland Hanna Award during his academic journey, he has had the privilege of sharing the stage with jazz legends Rufus Reid and George Coleman.

Awards

Roland Hanna Award

Vincent Hsu & The Jazz Supreme Orchestra: Music for the River Jazz Suite

Read "Music for the River Jazz Suite" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 4, 2023

Taiwanese-born bassist Vincent Hsu's ambitious opus, Music for the Jazz River Suite, is subtitled “The Spirit of Love River and Mississippi River." Its purpose is to find common ground via jazz between the Love River in in Hsu's hometown of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and the Mississippi, which carried jazz from the cotton fields of the South to urban areas in the North and, eventually, throughout the United States and around the world. The suite, written and arranged by ...