Name Shih-Hui Chen Role Composer | ||
Albums Shih-Hui Chen: Returning Souls People also search for Sarah Rothenberg, In Camera, Formosa Quartet, Cho-Liang Lin Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
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.
Contents
- Shih hui chen fantasia on a theme of plum blossom fantasia
- FORMOSA QUARTET Shih Hui Chen Returning Souls
- Biography
- Works
- Official link
- References
FORMOSA QUARTET | Shih Hui Chen 'Returning Souls'
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: