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TCHEN Gi-Vane
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TCHEN GI-Vane is a Pianist, composer, painter, president of the association Tao Antique, TCHEN Gi-Vane, deeply artistic, has led an extraordinary career. After a fascinating existence with her parents, famous pioneers in journalism and founders of great dailies in Beijing and Nanjing (1923-1924), TCHENGi-Vane was brutally forced to learn the path of exile. When the sino-japanese war burst out in 1937. Her family, who had lost everything, fled to Hong-Kong for the first time. Having returned to Shangai some time later with her mother, TCHEN Gi-Vane studied in the Conservatory of Music. Her professors were White Russian refugees from the famous Imperial Conservatory of Russia, and her music professor with whom she would study atonal music, was one of the german refugees of Jewish origin from the school of Schoenberg. In 1949, her family fled a second time to Hong-Kong, where TCHEN Gi-Vane continued her works of composition. One day in Hong-kong, having the opportunity to meet the French pianist Germaine Mounier, she presented her musical scores to her and confided in her her desire to continue her studies in Paris. Back in France, Germaine Mounier showed these scores to Darius Milhaud who succeeded in obtaining a visa for TCHEN Gi-Vane. On the 11 November 1951, TCHEN Gi-Vane disembarked in Paris with two suitcases. She then followed Jean Rivier composition courses, who replaced Darius Milhaud when he went to the United Stades. In winter 1952, TCHENGi-Vane, assisting at a conce
