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. 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)

• Film review: Special: Issues 55-56. 2005. 

Official link

• Composer's Website