Ming-Hsiu Yen is an internationally-acclaimed composer and pianist. She has collaborated with conductors, such as Osmo Väskä, Shao-Chia Lü, and Alexander Drčar, and with such orchestras as the Minnesota Orchestra, the Taiwan Philharmonic, and the Dunshan Symphonic Wind Orchestra (China), among others. She has awarded the 22nd Asian Composers League Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize, and the Heckscher Composition Prize, among others. Recent performances have included 2015 Taiwan Philharmonic China Concert Tour (Xiamen, Hong Kong, Shanghai), 2015 Dunshan Symphonic Wind Orchestra Taiwan Tour Concerts, 2014 Louisiana Bass Fest, 2013 Nong Project (Seoul), 2013 International Alliance for Women in Music Annual Concert, 2013 Taiwan Philharmonic Europe Concert Tour (Berlin, Geneva, Udine), Bass2012 Copenhagen, 2011 The Intimacy of Creativity (Hong Kong), 2011 Asian Composers League Conference (Taipei), etc. Ms. Yen holds degrees in composition and piano performance from the University of Michigan and the Eastman School of Music. Her primary composition teachers have included Bright Sheng, William Bolcom, Betsy Jolas, David Liptak, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Christopher Rouse, Steven Stucky, and Gordon Shi-Wen Chin. She is currently Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at the Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. (Website: www.minghsiuyen.com)