Kevin Chen, a 20-year-old pianist from Calgary, has won silver at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. American pianist Eric Lu won gold, which comes with a cash prize of $97,537.

Chen was one of 11 finalists who performed a concerto with the Warsaw Philharmonic and conductor Andrey Boreyko in the competition's final round, held on Oct. 18, 19 and 20. Of the 84 total competitors at this year’s event, there were five Canadians, including Victoria Wong, Ryan Wang, Eric Guo and Athena Deng.

Chen started studying the piano when he was five years old, and made his orchestral debut two years later with the Abbotsford Youth Orchestra. In 2013, when Chen was just eight years old, he made it onto CBC Music’s annual list of 30 hot Canadian classical musicians under

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