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Name
  
Shih-Hui Chen

Role
  
Composer



Albums
  
Shih-Hui Chen: Returning Souls

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Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Education
  
Boston University (1993)

Shih hui chen fantasia on a theme of plum blossom fantasia


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

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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. After receiving her DMA in Music Composition, Shih-Hui Chen took a position at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University 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.

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.

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)
  • Composer's Website
  • References

    Shih-Hui Chen Wikipedia