Shih-Hui Chen
Shih-Hui Chen (陳士惠) (born 1962) is a Taiwanese composer who lives and works in the United States.
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
- Remembrance (思想起中提琴協奏曲 Shu Shon Key) for viola and chamber ensemble (2006) or for viola and chamber orchestra (2006)
- 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
- ↑ 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 978-0-19-517067-2).
- ↑ Mittler, Barbara (1997). Dangerous tunes: the politics of Chinese music in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China since 1949.
- ↑ "Shih-hui Chen". Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ↑ Film review: Special: Issues 55-56. 2005.