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Yu-Hui Chang
781-736-3317
Room 222
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Often described by critics as "vivid and consistently engaging" and "compelling...with inventive touches", Yu-Hui Chang's music is characterized by its lyricism, intense harmonic language, and inventive effects. In March 2006, Works and Process at the New York Guggenheim Museum presented three of her works, highlighting her as a new talent of the younger generation. She has been recognized through awards and commissions from the American Composers Forum, Meet the Composers, the ACL - Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize, the Council for Cultural Affairs of the Executive Yuan (Taiwanese government agency), Music Taipei Composition Competition, the Wayne Peterson Prize (honorable mention), the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, the 2003 Seoul International Festival of Women in Music Today, and many others. Her music has been performed in Netherlands, Italy, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and throughout the U.S. by ensembles and orchestras such as the Nieuw Ensemble, Alea III, Auros, Earplay, Left Coast Ensemble, Alexander String Quartet, Kalistos Chamber Orchestra, Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan.
Yu-Hui Chang began her professional music training in performance and music theory at the age of six and started seriously pursuing musical composition as a career at the age of fourteen. She came to the United States in 1994 and received her graduate degrees from Brandeis University (Ph.D.) and Boston University (MM). Between 1999-2006 she was an assistant professor at University of California-Davis and a co-director of the Empyrean Ensemble.
