Scholarship and Biography
Award-winning composer Yu-Hui Chang has written a wide range of music that compels and resonates with professional musicians and audiences alike. Her music has been performed across continents in the Netherlands, Italy, UK, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and throughout the U.S. to critical acclaim. Among the commissions she has received are those from Fromm, Barlow, Koussevitzky, Naumburg, Meet the Composer (New Music USA), BMOP, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Earplay, Volti, Boston Musica Viva, Triple Helix, Monadnock Music Festival, Arts Council Korea, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, and National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center of Taiwan. She is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize, and Aaron Copland Award. She is also awarded the Charles Ives Fellowship (2009) and the Arts and Letters Award (2017) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Honors
The Council for Cultural Affairs of the Executive Yuan Music Composition Award
Taiwanese Government Council of Cultural Affairs, 1991
Yoshiro Irino Memorial Award, the 12th
Asian Composers League, 1998
Music Taipei Composition Competition Award (Honorable Mention)
Taiwanese Government Council of Cultural Affairs, 1998
Wayne Peterson Prize in Music Composition (Honorable Mention)
San Francisco State University (United States, San Francisco) - SFSU, 2004
Faculty Development Award, Office of the Provost
University of California, Davis (United States, Davis) - UCD, 2006
Aaron Copland Award
Aaron Copland Fund for Music (United States, New York), 2008
Fromm Music Foundation Commission
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 2008
Barlow Endowment for Music Composition , Barlow Commission
Brigham Young University (United States, Provo) - BYU, 2009
Koussevitzky Music Foundation
Library of Congress (United States, Washington D.C.), 2009
Charles Ives Fellowship
American Academy of Arts & Letters, 2009
Guggenheim Fellowship
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (United States, New York), 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 2009
Featured Composer, Meet the Composer's Three-City Dash Festival
Meet the Composer, 2010
Featured Guest Composer, Composers Conference at Wellesley College
Wellesley College (United States, Wellesley), 2011, 2017
Maurice Abravanel Distinguished Visiting Composer
University of Utah (United States, Salt Lake City) - UU, 2014, 2018
Composer-in-residence
Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan, Taipei), 2016
Featured Guest Composer, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival
Kneisel Hall, 2016
Featured Guest Composer, NienteForte Contemporary Music Festival
Tulane University (United States, New Orleans), 2016
Grant, Taiwan
National Culture and Arts Foundation, 2017
Arts and Letters Award
American Academy of Arts & Letters, 2017
Featured Guest Composer
Composers Conference , 2019
Fromm Music Foundation Commission
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 12/2024
Organizational Affiliations
Past Affiliations
Education
Brandeis University
Ph.D.
Boston University
M.M.
National Taiwan Normal University
B.F.A.