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’s concert career is flourishing internationally, with a wide range of performances in major venues across North America, Europe, and Asia. She has distinguished herself—both as pianist and vocalist, and occasionally as her own accompanist—most recently at The Gilmore’s Rising Stars Series and in her solo debuts at Kennedy Center and Merkin Hall in New York. These recitals, made possible by her historic win at the Young Concert Artists International Auditions as the first ever artist to win in two disciplines, featured her unique programming. The program, highlighting Chelsea’s interest in the fascinating connectivity between piano and vocal literature, included repertoire inspired by the musical partnership between Frédéric Chopin and the singer-pianist Pauline Viardot—including Viardot’s settings of twelve Chopin mazurkas to French poetry. 

Having performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and London’s Wigmore Hall and with notable festivals throughout the US and Germany such as the Fazioli Piano Festival in Italy, the Miami Piano Festival, and the Moritzburg Festival in Germany, Chelsea also often performs as both pianist and soprano in orchestral engagements. At the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, she performed as a soloist in Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Mahler Symphony No. 4. The San Diego Story wrote, “Her lithe soprano uplifted every phrase with ingratiating sonic purity… I simply did not want Guo to stop.”

Other orchestral projects include a collaboration with The Florida Orchestra and Michael Francis, performing as pianist in Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain and as soprano in Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, an an all-Mozart program with the Gorzów Philharmonic and Przemysław Fiugajski featuring the Piano Concerto No. 22, Exsultate Jubilate, and the concert aria “Ch’io mi scordi di te”, and a late romantic program with The Lakeside Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Meyer including Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor and Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise.

Chelsea’s debut recording, Chopin: In My Voice (Orchid Classics), earned international acclaim. Gramophone named it one of its “Essential New Albums,” writing, “As both a pianist and singer Chelsea Guo is clearly a special talent.”WQXR and Naxos China selected the recording among their “Best Albums of the Month.” True to her artistic vision, Chelsea paired major Chopin piano works with two of the composer’s songs and a Rossini aria—accompanying herself. She was subsequently named one of Classic FM’s “Rising Stars: 30 Brilliant Musicians We’re Celebrating in 2022,” which led to her appearance in a Sky TV feature on the series. She has since been heard on Chicago’s WFMT and frequently on WQXR’s Young Artist Showcase.

As of the 2024-2025 season onwards, Chelsea has expanded into the world of opera, with which she balances concert performing. In the summer of 2024, she joined Wolf Trap Opera’s Studio Artist Program, appearing in productions of La bohème and Così fan tutte. In May 2025, she joined the Opernstudio of the Volksoper Wien, where she made her Viennese operatic debut at Adelaide in the Austrian premiere of The Enchanted Pig by Jonathan Dove.

In the 2025-26 season, she sings Frasquita in Carmen, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito, among other roles. She covers Violetta in La Traviata and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier. Future seasons will include role debuts as Musetta in La bohème, Maria in West Side Story, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi.