Chelsea Guo is emerging as a remarkable new kind of musical artist, equally inspired and highly regarded as both a pianist and a soprano. As she forges her own unique, multi-faceted path, Chelsea is winning plaudits from critics and audiences alike across the classical music world.

A recent graduate of The Juilliard School, Chelsea Guo’s concert career is flowering internationally in a wide range of performances in prominent venues in North America, Europe and Asia. She has distinguished herself, both as a pianist and vocalist – occasionally as her own accompanist – at Italy’s Fazioli Piano Festival, Spain’s Sociedad Filarmónica de A Coruña, Germany’s Moritzburg Festival, among other festival engagements.

Having performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and London’s Wigmore Hall, Chelsea also highlighted San Diego’s 2023 Mainly Mozart Festival with her performances as soprano soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and, two nights later, as soloist in Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Such range is almost unheard of, with notices including a rave review in the San Diego Story. “Her lithe soprano uplifted every phrase with ingratiating sonic purity . . . I simply did not want Guo to stop.”

Chelsea Guo won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2022 as both a pianist and vocalist – the double award a first in YCA’s illustrious history. In the coming season, Young Concert Artists will present Chelsea in debut recitals at both New York’s Merkin Concert Hall and Washington’s Kennedy Center.

Chelsea’s 2024/25 season also includes the gala opening night of The Florida Orchestra, in which she performs as pianist in de Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain, as well as vocalist in Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5. She is being presented in duo recital at Kansas City’s renowned Harriman Jewell Series, alongside the baritone Joseph Parrish, while also performing, in December, as the soprano soloist in the Richmond Symphony’s “Messiah.”

The Orchid Classics release of Chelsea Guo: Chopin in My Voice, her debut recording from 2021, won raves, with Gramophone Magazine including the CD among its “Essential New Albums” (“as both a pianist and singer Chelsea Guo is clearly a special talent”), while the New York classical radio station WQXR and Naxos China both cited the recording among their “Best Albums of the Month.”  Chelsea was subsequently named one of British radio station Classic FM’s “Rising Stars: 30 Brilliant Musicians We’re Celebrating in 2022.”

As she spreads her wings, Chelsea is also exploring opera performance, in the summer of 2024 joining Wolf Trap Opera’s prestigious Studio Artist Program, where she participated in productions of La bohème and Così fan tutte. Alongside her flourishing ongoing career as a recitalist and soloist in orchestral and festival settings, in the spring of 2025 Chelsea becomes one of eight international singers chosen to join the Opera Studio of the Volksoper Wien, which coaches outstanding young artists in all aspects of operatic theatre. 

A standout in both international piano and vocal competitions, New York born and Connecticut raised Chelsea Guo was a winner at the 2020 National Chopin Piano Competition in Miami, while her vocal gifts were acknowledged when she was named a 2019 National YoungArts winner, and with the First Prize at the 2019 Schmidt Vocal Arts Competition.