{{short description|Composer}} {{Infobox person | name = <!-- defaults to article title when left blank --> | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1970}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yu-Hui Chang, Composer|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0026064/|access-date=2020-10-03|website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref> | birth_place = Taichung, Taiwan | occupation = Composer | notable_works = | awards = Guggenheim Fellowship <br/ > Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters }} '''Yu-Hui Chang''' (Chinese: 張玉慧; born 1970) is a Taiwanese composer based in the United States. She received awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009, and the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017. She is the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Music at Brandeis University.
== Education == Yu-Hui Chang began studying music with a focus on piano, voice and music theory at six years of age. By the age of fourteen she was actively following a path toward a career in composition. She graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University, and in 1994 came to the United States to study music composition. She received her Masters of Music degree from Boston University and a Ph.D from Brandeis University.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=June 15, 2010 |title=Yu-Hui Chang |url=https://www.wqxr.org/people/yu-hui-chang/ |access-date=2020-10-03 |website=WQXR |language=en}}</ref> From 1996 until 2006 Chang was on the faculty of University of California, Davis.<ref name=":0" /> In 2006 she moved to Brandeis University as a composition faculty member, and as of 2022 she is the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Music.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yu-Hui Chang {{!}} Brandeis University |url=https://www.brandeis.edu/facultyguide/person.html?emplid=22eaea294d375d61fe3b645f8e9a4e3e6290068b |access-date=2022-09-01 |website=www.brandeis.edu}}</ref>
== Career == Chang composes for orchestra, chamber ensemble, vocalists and soloists. While at the University of California, Davis Chang co-directed Empyrean Ensemble where she as performed as a conductor or a pianist.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Albany Records: Tribute to Chou Wen-Chung|url=https://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AR&Product_Code=TROY1064-65&Category_Code=a-Chamber|access-date=2020-10-03|website=www.albanyrecords.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wolka |first=Matt |date=2008-10-26 |title=Empyrean Ensemble |url=https://www.oldfirstconcerts.org/empyrean-ensemble-3/ |access-date=2022-09-01 |website=Old First Concerts |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2006 she was featured in the New York Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Yu-Hui Chang |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/yu-hui-chang/ |access-date=2022-09-01 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> The Walter W. Naumburg Foundation commissioned Chang to compose ''After Ego'' for the 2015 Naumburg cello competition winner, Lev Sivkov, who gave the premiere in Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in April 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |author=BWW News Desk |title=Naumburg Cellist Lev Sivkov Joined By Pianist Nikita Mndoyants To Perform In Weill Recital Hall |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Naumburg-Cellist-Lev-Sivkov-Joined-By-Pianist-Nikita-Mndoyants-To-Perform-In-Weill-Recital-Hall-20190405 |access-date=2020-10-03 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |language=en}}</ref> From 2009-2016, Chang co-directed Boston-based Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Corey |first1=Charles |year=2013 |title=Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-1002249307 |access-date=2020-10-03 |website=Grove Music Online |language=en |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2249307|isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=September 2022}} In 2018 the Boston Modern Orchestra Project premiered a twenty-minute long composition of her work. While Chang would not admit to spending time in video arcades as a child, the sounds of the arcades served as the inspiration for her orchestral piece "Pixelandia".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Madonna |first=Zoe |date=2018-04-20 |title=Aiming high with a video game-inspired piece |pages=G4 |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104560102/aiming-high-with-a-video-game-inspired/ |access-date=2022-06-28}}</ref> The piece was commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yu-Hui Chang |url=https://frommfoundation.fas.harvard.edu/people/yu-hui-chang |access-date=2020-10-03 |website=frommfoundation.fas.harvard.edu |language=en}}</ref>
== Awards and honors == In 1998 Chang received the Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize from the Asian Composers League.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Awards – Page 2 – Asian Composers League |url=https://www.asiancomposersleague.org/resources/awards/2/ |access-date=2022-09-01 |language=en-AU}}</ref> Between 2008-2009 Chang received multiple honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship,<ref name=":1" /> the Copland House Residency Award,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Composers / Copland House Residency Awards // Copland House …where America's musical past and future meet |url=http://www.coplandhouse.org/composers/copland-house-residency-awards/ |access-date=2020-10-03 |website=www.coplandhouse.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hershenson |first=Roberta |date=2008-11-07 |title=For Copland Musicians, 10th Season of Seclusion and Nurture |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/nyregion/westchester/09musicwe.html |access-date=2020-10-03 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> the Charles Ives Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title="Yu-Hui Chang" – American Academy of Arts and Letters |url=https://artsandletters.org/?s=yu-hui+chang |access-date=2022-09-01 |website=artsandletters.org}}</ref> Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress.<ref name="LOC2">{{Cite web |title=2008 {{!}} Announcements {{!}} About This Program {{!}} Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commissions for Composers {{!}} Programs at the Library of Congress {{!}} Library of Congress |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/koussevitzky-music-foundation/about-this-program/announcements/2008/ |access-date=2020-10-03 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Tick |first=Judith |title=Women in American music |date=2013-10-16 |url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/documentID/omo-9781561592630-e-1002252574 |work=Oxford Music Online |editor-last=Tsou |editor-first=Judy |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2252574 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |access-date=2022-09-01|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The American Academy of Arts and Letters gave her an Arts and Letters Award in Music in 2017.<ref name=":2" />
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== External links == *[http://www.yuhuichang.com Yu-Hui Chang website] *{{YouTube|id=1s3SlO1wthk|title=Meet the Composers: Yu-Hui Chang}}, October 15, 2020
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