Chia-Yu Hsu (許家毓博士)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Chia-Yu Hsu
- Chinese: 許家毓博士
- Era: 1975
- Geography: 台灣板橋Banciao, Taiwan
- Core roles: professor, artist, educator
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Chiayu is an active composer of contemporary concert music. Chiayu has been interested in deriving inspirations from different materials, such as poems, myths, and images. Particularly, however, it is the combination of Chinese elements and western techniques that is a hallmark of her music.
Education
- 國立台灣藝術大學 — 1995
- 寇蒂斯Curtis音樂學院 — 2000 — BM
- Yale University — 2003 — 音樂碩士與藝術家文憑(Artist Diploma)
- Duke University — 2009 — Ph.D.
Employment
- Musician — UW-Eau Claire — Assistant Professor — Lynn University — International Call for Scores - Winner (Shan Ko) — 7th USA International Harp Competition — Composition Contest Winner (Huan) — (2006-)
Family
No filled family fields on the TAH profile.
Role in the Community
- Featured twice in the TAH Foundation Who’s Who stream (11/2014): as composer profile 74. Chia-Yu Hsu 許家毓 and as pianist profile 11 — the community record documents both her composition and performance sides.
- Biography remains TAH press-kit sourced; no memoir narrative found. One cross-reference exists: she is named among the award-winning composers worked with by Tzuying Huang 黃姿穎, Bass Clarinetist (St. Louis Symphony, appointed 2015-02) — 2016-06 — corroborating her standing in the new-music/performance community alongside her own composition and piano profiles.
- 2026-10-08 (deepen-x slice 10070700-6): five-dir re-grep (許家毓/家毓/Chiayu Hsu/Chia-Yu Hsu) — hit set = own two work pages + index + the musician341 cross-reference above. A Festival of Nations Albany hit for 家毓 is 楊家毓 (Ellen Yang), a different person — not absorbed.