Deemed one of the Superior Pianists of the Year (Boston Globe), Gloria Chien is founding Artistic Director of String Theory, a chamber music series in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo in 2010. A Steinway Artist, she has recorded for Chandos Records and released a CD with clarinetist Anthony McGill in 2010. A former member of the Bowers Program (formerly known as CMS Two), Gloria Chien is an Artist-in-Residence at Lee University in Tennessee and is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.