Lichou Chen is a teacher, musicologist, cellist, and singer from Taiwan. Born in Changua, she studied at the Tainan Junior College of Home Economics and graduated with a Vocal major with Prof. Lu Yi-chan.
After her graduation, she went to Italy where she studied a Major in Musicology at the University of Pavia, graduating in 2005 with a dissertation about Pipa during Tang Dynasty and a comparison of the  Lute and the Ud. Her dissertation was well appreciated by the board of examiners.
Apart from her academic studies, in Italy, she continued to practice music as both a cellist and singer. She got a Baroque cello degree from the Conservatory of Novara under the guidance of Prof. G. Nasillo. Among her most relevant vocal experiences, she has sung as a soloist in the female Gregorian Chant Chorus Sorores, conducted by G. Baroffio, and for several years she has been a member of the polyphonic choir, Costanzo Porta, in Cremona, conducted by A. Greco. As a member of these choirs, she participated in International Music Festivals in Ravenna, Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence.
She has been a Vocal teacher and Chorus conductor at the University of Medicine of Kaohsiung (Taiwan); and a Cello teacher and Chorus conductor at the Assumption University of Bangkok. Since 2008 she has taught AP Music theory, Choral, String music, and Symphonic Orchestra conducting at TCIS. Lichou is also a promoter of cultural exchanges among South-East Asian countries and Italy, and an organizer of summer camps for high school Asian students in Europe (England and Italy), conducting these activities under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Thailand.