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1. 1. BMOP :: Shih-Hui Chen

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   Published on: 5/4/2008   Last Visited: 5/4/2008

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   As the recipient of a Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commission (2004), a Barlow Endowment Commission (2001), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2000), and an American Academy in Rome Prize (1999), the music of Shih-Hui Chen has received significant recognition in recent years. A performance of Twice Removed at Lincoln Center was described by the New York Times as "...ruminative and involving, drawing the listener in through a process of gradual thematic metamorphosis." String Quartet No. 3, premiered by the Arditti Quartet at the Tanglewood Music Festival, was praised by The Boston Globe as having "... a sureness of step and gentleness of spirit that are very winning." In 66 Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer finds a sensitive text setting which "... abounds in arching vocal lines, harmony that sits on the precipice of tonality, and richly hued atmospheres that depict the various seasons." This work has also been analyzed by German ethnomusicologist Barbara Mittler for the Asian Music Journal CHIME, who also has written an entry about Ms. Chen in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
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   Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Shih-Hui Chen came to the United States in 1982 and received her master's degree from Northern Illinois University and her doctoral degree from Boston University. There have been many performances of her works, including those by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, and Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. Also frequently appearing in programs abroad, her music has been featured in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Germany, Italy and Amsterdam. As a recipient of fellowships, Ms. Chen has been awarded grants from the Fromm Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer Foundation, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Harvard University, and the Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation.
   
   Shih-Hui Chen also enjoys collaborating with artists from other disciplines. She has completed a film score for the documentary, Once Removed, by film maker Julie Mallozzi (premiered at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston), and written There, a song cycle composed with poet Robert Creely, using paintings by Francesco Clemente. To educate children about new music, she wrote Little Dragonflies, a set of children's piano pieces based on Taiwanese folk melodies. She is currently composing a short musical drama "Lullaby" based on Taiwanese texts to be presented to more than four thousand school children in the Houston area.
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   Shih-Hui Chen is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Composition at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University and Composer in Residence at Boston University's Tanglewood Institute (2000, 2001, 2004). She is also a music advisor for Formosa Chamber Music Society, an active member of Musiqa (a composers' collective based in Houston), and the Asian Composers' League.

2. 2. www.trigonmusic.com

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   Published on: 2/21/2008   Last Visited: 3/10/2008

   Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Shih-Hui Chen came to the United States in 1982 where she has been a citizen since 1989. Her compositions have been performed widely throughout the United States and abroad including China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Singapore, England, Germany, and Italy. Chen's work has brought her into contact with many orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra, Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Shanghai Conservatory Orchestra. Her chamber music has been presented by the Arditti String Quartet, members of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Empyrean Ensemble, Da Camera of Houston, Chiara String Quartet, Voices of Change, Boston Musica Viva, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Fischer Duo, Network for New Music, Seattle Chamber Players, and the Freon Ensemble in Rome. She has also had the opportunity to work with many virtuosic soloists including saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky, vocalists Christine Schadeburg, Elizabeth Weigle, and Timothy Jones, violinists Nai-Yuan Hu, and Lynn Chang, pipa player Wu Man, and Min-Xiao Fen, clarinetist Jean Kopperud, and violist Hsing-Yun Huang.
   
   Chen also enjoys collaborating with artists from other disciplines. She composed a film score for the documentary, Once Removed, by filmmaker Julie Mallozzi (premiered at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston), and wrote There, a song cycle composed with poet Robert Creely, using paintings by Francesco Clemente. Her most recent work, Sweet Rice Pie, Six Songs on Four Taiwanese Nursery Rhymes, is a theatrical work for solo voice and ensemble.
   
   Shih-Hui Chen currently serves on the faculty at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University where she teaches music composition. Her works are distributed by Subito Music Corporation.

3. 3. www.chineseperformingarts.net

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   Published on: 3/12/2007   Last Visited: 3/12/2007

   A composition lesson with Dr. Shih-Hui Chen, the 1999 Rome Prize winner, the Guggenheim Award recipient, and many other honors she received. She is the Composer in Residence at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and is on the composition faculty at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University.