YU-CHUN CHIEN
Yu-Chun Chien is a Taiwanese composer based in the United States and Taiwan. Her compositions and arrangements have been published and performed in Taiwan, the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Canada. She has appeared at festivals and residencies such as Time of Music (Musiikin aika), ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week, June in Buffalo, NUNC4! New Music Conference and Festival, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, impuls International Ensembles and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music, Asian Composers League Conference and Festival, Etchings Festival, and the Loretto Project. She has collaborated with some of the world’s prestigious orchestras, ensembles, and musicians, including the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Signal, Decoda Ensemble, loadbang, Mivos Quartet, Ensemble Suono Giallo, Uunsinta Ensemble, Longleash Piano Trio, David Gilbert, Brad Lubman, Pablo Rus Broseta, Fusao Kajima, and many others.
Yu-Chun is a full-time faculty and the Head of Aural Skills at Manhattan School of Music. Previously, she was a Teaching Assistant Professor at West Virginia University. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from Manhattan School of Music, and her Bachelor of Music degree from Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan.