recital appearances include the Texas Conservatory for Young Artists, the Peace Center, Steinway Society concerts, and solo recital tours throughout the US and Taiwan. Her Steinway concert set a record for attendance!

Sandra won first prizes in the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, the Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition, the Taiwan National Piano Competition, and the Peabody Frances M. Wentz Memorial Prize. Sandra has recorded 3 CDs, debuting with her Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto. Sandra currently teaches at the Brevard Music Institute, and previously taught at Southern Illinois University.

Mixing music and philanthropy, Sandra has raised over $23K by playing benefit concerts for earthquake victims, foster chilren, education and assisted-living patients. An ambassador of classical music, she has taught classical music appreciation to beginning and advanced students, young and old, CEOs, children with sever mental retardation, and orphans. She was the host of a classical radio program for FM 97.5 (Taiwan). She is currently working on a classical music program to be broadcast on PBS.

Pianist Sandra Wright Shen received her BM and MM in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory, under Ann Schein and Donald Sutherland. She performed in Master Classes with Jerome Lowenthal, Andre Watts, and Rebecca Penneys and studied chamber music with Earl Carlyss and the Juilliard String Quartet. She studied Russian pianism with Zalina Gurevich, Oleg Barsov, and Lev Nauomov. She also collaborated in chamber music with Vesselin Parashkevov (concert master of the Vienna Philharmonic) and cellist Nina Kotova, and has worked with the Alban Berg Quartet, Jorg Demus, and Grant Johannessen.

Sandra has made guest appearances with the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, Redlands Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Moment Musical, and the Young Artist Chamber Concert Series at the Kennedy Music Center. Solo