Yu-Hui Chang

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Yu-Hui Chang (* 1970 ) is a Taiwanese composer and conductor .

Life

She studied at the National Taiwan University , Boston University and Brandeis University (Ph.D.). From 1999 to 2006 she taught at the University of California, Davis , where she led the Empyrean Ensemble for several years together with Professor Laurie San Martin . Today she is a professor at Brandeis University. In Boston she was co-director of the Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble.

Her compositions have been performed in the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom, China, Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and South Korea.

Chang was a Guggenheim Fellow , the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University . She is the recipient of the Aaron Copland Award, the ACL Yoshiro IRINO Memorial Prize, and the Executive Yuan's Council for Cultural Affairs Prize . In 2017, Chang received the Arts and Letters Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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