Ori Chen is a Jazz pianist and composer based in Brooklyn, New York.
In the last few years she has been gigging around New- York, Europe and Israel. In 2025 she recieved a scholarhship to attend the prestigous Tribeca Jazz Institue fellowship. In 2023 she graduated from The New School univesity in NYC for Jazz and Contemporary Music, recieving the Dean’s award.
In 2023 Ori preformed at the Bern Jazz Festival with a quartet co-led by vocalist Noa Chait. In 2021, she has colaborated with acclaimed poet Lali Tzipi Michaeli establishing a line of Jazz and Poetry shows. In 2019, she became the first young artist to receive the Robin Hodes Jacobs Scholarship, an annual award granted by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. In 2018, She was chosen to preform with her original piece in the Akko Theatre Festival.
Playing the piano since the age of 6, Ori was trained in the classical world and was later drawn to Jazz by her natural ability for improvisation and her sense for storytelling.
She has studied under renowed Jazz artists such as Mike LeDonne, Hal Galper, Aaron Goldberg and many more.
Ori’s first EP with her trio, presenting her original compositions, is due to be released soon.