Shih-Hui Chen

Shih-Hui Chen

Shih-Hui Chen (陳士惠) (born 1962) is a Taiwanese composer who lives and works in the United States.

Composer Shih-Hui Chen

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Biography

Chen Shih-hui (陳士惠) was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and came to the United States in 1982 to study for a master's degree from Northern Illinois University and a doctoral degree from Boston University.[1] After receiving her DMA in Music Composition, Shih-Hui Chen took a position at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University [2] where she is currently an Associate Professor of Music Composition. She served as composer-in-residence at Boston University's Tanglewood Institute in 2000, 2001 and 2004, and as music advisor for the Formosa Chamber Music Society. She is a former member of the composers' collective Musiqa and the Asian Composers' League.[3]

Chen Shih-hui has been awarded a number of grants, and her work has been performed internationally. In 1999, she received an American Academy in Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000, and a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2007. In 2010, Chen received a Fulbright Fellowship to study traditional Chinese Music, Nanguan (music), and music of the Taiwanese aboriginal people.

Works

Chen Shih-hui composes for orchestra, chamber ensemble, voice, and solo instruments. She also composes music for theater and film scores.[4]

Selected works include:

  • 66 Times for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
  • 66 Times for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra
  • Fu I for Solo Pipa
  • Fu II for Pipa and Five Western Instruments
  • Mei Hua for String Quartet
  • Moments for Full Orchestra
  • Plum Blossoms for Alto Saxophone and Piano
  • Shui for Cello and Piano
  • Shu Shon Key for Viola and Chamber Ensemble
  • Shu Shon Key for Viola and Chamber Orchestra
  • Sweet Rice Pie, Six Songs on Four Taiwanese Nursery Rhymes for Voice and Chamber Ensemble
  • Twice Removed for Solo Alto Saxophone and Solo Clarinet (2 versions)

References

  1. ^ Mittler, Barbara. Chen Shihui. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online (subscription required) (Online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. ISBN 9780195170672).
  2. ^ Mittler, Barbara (1997). Dangerous tunes: the politics of Chinese music in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China since 1949. 
  3. ^ "Shih-hui Chen". http://www.bmop.org/explore-bmop/musicians/shih-hui-chen. Retrieved 22 June 2011. 
  4. ^ Film review: Special: Issues 55-56. 2005. 

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