Described by International Piano Magazine as: "...an armour-clad player of complete technique, a thinking musician, a natural Romantic.", Bobby Chen studied with Ruth Nye and Hamish Milne at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal Academy of Music, and burst on the scene in a British tour with Lord Yehudi Menuhin and the Warsaw Sinfonia, and a recital at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the South Bank Prokofiev Festival. He was soloist under conductors Mathias Bamert, Maximiano Valdés, Michał Nesterowicz, Sir Neville Marriner, Pierre-André Valade, Lan Shui, Jonathan Bloxham and Giancarlo Guerrero, made his Italian solo recital debut at the Fazioli Concert Hall, given four solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall, broadcast for Classic Fm, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Radio Television Hong Kong and Pianoforte Chicago, and founded the biennial Overseas Masters Winter Piano Academy (OMWPA) on the premises of the Yehudi Menuhin School.

A proud Malaysian from Sandakan, he was honoured to have performed as concerto soloist on four separate occasions at the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and was humbled to have celebrated Malaysia’s 50th Anniversary as a nation by giving the world premiere performance of a new piano concerto by his fellow Malaysian Prof. Dr. Tazul Tajuddin at London’s Cadogan Hall.