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Yu-Hui Chang (張玉慧)

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Yu-Hui Chang (張玉慧)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Yu-Hui Chang
  • Chinese: 張玉慧
  • Era: 1970
  • Geography: 台灣台中
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Using a decidedly contemporary language of diverse harmonic color, inventive timbre and ingenious effects, award-winning composer Yu-Hui Chang (b. 1970) has written a wide range of music that compels and resonates with professional musicians and audiences alike. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation, Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, and Meet The Composer (now New Music USA). Additional honors include the Aaron Copland Award, Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize from the Asian Composers’ League, and the Council for Cultural Affairs of the Executive Yuan (Taiwanese government agency, now Ministry of Culture.)

Education

  • 台灣師範大學 — B.S.
  • 波士頓大學 — M.S. Musician
  • Brandeis大學 — Ph.D. Musician

Employment

  • Brandeis大學音樂系及音樂研究所 — Present — 主任及專任副教授
  • Dinosaur Annex現代室內樂團 — 2010- — 藝術總監
  • 美國加州大學Davis分校 — Teaching
  • Empyrean現代室內樂團 — 總監

Honours & Appointments (absorbed from TAH bio)

  • Fellowships: Guggenheim Foundation; American Academy of Arts and Letters; Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University
  • Commissions: Fromm Music Foundation; Koussevitzky Music Foundation; Barlow Endowment for Music Composition; Meet The Composer (now New Music USA)
  • Prizes: Aaron Copland Award; Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize (Asian Composers’ League); Council for Cultural Affairs of the Executive Yuan (now Ministry of Culture)
  • Artistic Director, Dinosaur Annex contemporary chamber ensemble (2010–)
  • Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Music, Brandeis University (present)

Timeline

  • 1970 — born, Taichung, Taiwan
  • 2010 — became Artistic Director of Dinosaur Annex
  • present — Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Music, Brandeis University (per Who’s Who employment table); also taught at UC Davis and directed the Empyrean contemporary chamber ensemble
  • 2015 — profiled in the TAH encyclopedia (#301, #652)

Family

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Connected in the Vault

The two TAH encyclopedia entries cited above are held in the vault as bibliographic records — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/301-yu-hui-chang-e5-bc-b5-e7-8e-89-e6-85-a7-composer-201510||TAH #301: Yu-Hui Chang, Composer]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/652-yu-hui-chang-e5-bc-b5-e7-8e-89-e6-85-a7-201510||TAH #652: Yu-Hui Chang]] (both 2015/10), part of the |TAH story corpus. Per the Education table, she studied at 台灣師範大學 (Taiwan’s former teachers college / normal university lineage, see TC alumni association) before Boston University and Brandeis.

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Vault-wide mention sweep: she appears only in the two cited TAH encyclopedia records ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/301-yu-hui-chang-e5-bc-b5-e7-8e-89-e6-85-a7-composer-201510||#301]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/652-yu-hui-chang-e5-bc-b5-e7-8e-89-e6-85-a7-201510||#652]]) plus the people/works/source index pages. All wikilink targets verified to exist. No new vault facts, no new pages, no web, nothing published.

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