Levi Chen

Levi Chen -- composer, guitarist and founder of the trio Celtic Zen (with harpist Lisa Franco and cembalist Michael Masley) -- is a first-generation Chinese-American who, though born and raised in the Midwest, has lived in countries as diverse as Taiwan, France, Italy, and Switzerland. Chen speaks five languages. Chen was already a world traveler (his family visited grandparents in Taiwan) by the time he began studying guitar at age ten. In 1981, the rebellious teenage Chen was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland for his junior year. This, he says, turned his life around...