Pianist Jean-David Coen holds degrees from the Paris Conservatory, Juilliard, and Yale; finishing with his Doctorate from the University of SoutherCalifornia.He has studied with significant masters representing each of the 3 essential pianistic traditions; German, Russian, and French. These great artists include Adele Marcus, Jeanne-Marie Darre, Sacha Gorodnitzki, Claude Frank and John Perry. His most significant mentors in chamber music and collaborative artistry were Szymon Goldberg, and Joseph Silverstein.

Jean-David, a Beverly Hills "native" began concertizing with orchestra when he was 9, and by 17 had performed both Tchaikovsky and Brahms first piano concerti.
He has played around the world, with orchestras like the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in Tanglewood, the Oregon Bach Festival and the Aspen School of Music; where he was assistant to John Perry and member of the Piano and Chamber Music faculty for 24 years. His 2008 performance of the Diabelli variations concluded the festival's presentation of the entire cycle of Beethoven's piano works.

His collaborations have included performances with conductors such as David Zinman, and Helmuth Rilling; violinists Peter Zazofsky and Robert Mcduffie, singers Vinson Cole and William Sharp and frequent work with cellist Yehudah Hanani. He has toured and given master classes in both China and Japan as part of Trio Oregon. Both solo and ensemble performances have been heard on NPR's "Performance Today", KUSC, and WQXR in New York.

He has been a Visiting Professor of Piano at the Sheppard School Of Music at USC, is currently Professor of Piano at Willamette University in Oregon, and has taught winners of the Gilmore prize and Leeds competition. His students have performed in Carnegie Hall, won international piano competitions, performed on NPR's "From the Top" and hold faculty positions in the US, Europe, and Asia.