CHIH-YUN WANG
王 之 筠
Composer
｜中文簡歷｜
王之筠，作曲家，國立臺北藝術大學音樂藝術博士。
在學期間，師事楊聰賢教授及林京美教授。其作品榮獲2025日本川崎亞洲作曲家聯盟（ACL）青年作曲獎首獎、美國2023 Sempre Musick作曲比賽榮譽獎；2026年，受作曲家陳銀淑（Unsuk Chin）遴選為2027衛武營國際音樂節之委託創作作曲家；同年並於臺灣聲響實驗室IRCAM ManiFeste 國際交流計畫獲選，赴巴黎 IRCAM 參與 ManiFeste Academy。
之筠多項作品及委託創作參與各地音樂節包含：林茲電子音樂節(Ars Electronica Festival）、奧地利格拉茲impuls Festival、加拿大Musicians in Residence Winter 2025、臺灣聲響實驗室2023 CREATORS聲鬥陣：進駐計畫、法國ARCo opus、義大利ilSUONO音樂節等，之筠亦曾參與IRCAM ManiFeste藝術節、衛武營國際音樂節Unsuk Chin作曲工作坊、國家交響樂團（NSO）一分鐘交響曲計畫等…等。她的作品受到國藝會、C-Lab、臺北市藝文補助與馬水龍獎學金贊助與支持。
近年，之筠欲探索豐富的器樂音色變化，以表達記憶、傳統和日常經驗中的自我認同，並從中找尋歸屬的真正意義。
Taiwanese composer, Chih-Yun Wang (b.1995) holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) in Composition from Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), where she studied with Ching-Mei Lin and Tsung-Hsien Yang.
Her compositions explore self-identity through memory, Asian cultural traditions, and lived experience. For her, music is a way of understanding herself and the world, through which she transforms these influences into sound and explores different perspectives on identity and belonging.
Chih-Yun’s recent composition, Poupées: Tableaux Vivants for SATB Saxophone Quartet, has been awarded first prize in the 2025 Kawasaki ACL Young Composers Competition in Japan. She was also commissioned for the 2027 Weiwuying International Music Festival (Artistic Director: Unsuk Chin) and was also selected for the C-LAB–IRCAM International Exchange Program, through which she participated in the IRCAM ManiFeste Academy.
Her music has been featured at concerts and festivals included e.g., 2025 C-LAB Sound Festival: DIVERSONICS (Tiwan), 2025 Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria), 2025 impuls Festival & Academy (Graz, Austria), 2025 Asian Composers League (ACL) Festival (Japan), Banff Musicians in Residence Winter 2025 Concert (Canada), Unsuk Chin’s masterclass of Weiwuying International Music Festival (Tiwan, 2023, 2024, and 2026), 2023 CREATORS Sound Off Up-and-Coming Creators Residency Program in Taiwan Sound Lab (Artist-in-residence composer), 2022 ACL Festival (New Zealand), ARCo opus 2022 (Austria), ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week 2022 (Italy), International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2018 (Korea) and Tokyo College of Music& TNUA Concert 2019 (Japan), among others.
Chih-Yun has received commissions and worked with internationally renowned ensembles, musicians, and conductors, including maestro Jun Märkl and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO), Chi-Yuan Lin and members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra, Su-Han Yang and Camerata Taiwan, IEMA-ensemble, TANA Quartet, Ensemble Multilatérale, Ensemble Suono Giallo, Sidera Saxophone Quartet, MIT Saxophone Ensemble, TNUA Percussion Ensemble as well as Fabrice Pierre and Ensemble Atelier XX-21 at CNSMD de Lyon (France), and Project 23.6N, among others. The Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation and Taiwan Sound Lab of C-LAB have supported her works.
Additionally, she has participated in international lessons, master classes, and courses with composers, among them: Dieter Ammann, Unsuk Chin, Ken Ueno, Chaya Czernowin, Misato Mochizuki, Davide Gagliardi, Cindy McTee, Anders Hallberg, Edmund Campion, Clara Iannotta, Francesco Filidei, Henry Fourès, Eva Reiter, Yann Robin, Johannes Maria Staud, Keiko Harada, Jean Geoffroy, Lei Liang, Yu-Hui Chang, and Mei-Feng Lin.
Education & Major
2019-2025 D.M.A candidate in Composition, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
2019 M.M., Taipei National University of the Arts
2017 B.M., Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA)
Honors and Residencies
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2025
Kawasaki ACL Young Composers Competition First prize
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2023
Sempre Musick 2023 Composition Competition Honorable Mentions
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2023
Artist-in-residence, at 2023 CREATORS Sound Off Creators Residency Program in Taiwan Sound Lab of Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB, an area for development of the technology, academic research and contemporary creation collaborated with IRCAM since 2018.) (Apr. to Sept., 2023)
Selected
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2025
Ars Electronica Festival / Sonic Saturday: Rheometer Concert (Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität)
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2025
Impuls Festival in Graz / Special programs
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2024
Participate in 2024&2023 Unsuk Chin masterclass of Weiwuying International Music Festival.
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2022
Asian Composers League (ACL) Young Composers Competition (NZ).
Participate as a student composer in 2022 ARCo Festival in Salzburg (AT).
Partially active participant in 2022 ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week (IT).
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2017
“Orchestra Members’ Choice Prize” , “Honorable Mention Prize” in the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO) Composition Competition.
TNUA Emerging Young Artists Prize
Performances
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2025
Aural Riddle of Echoed Memories (2024-25)
for 8 Musicians and Electronics (15’) included in the portfolio of DMA doctoral dissertation.
Narcissus (2025) premiered by TNUA New Music Workshop, TNUA Concert Hall, Taiwan, 15 Nov. 2025.
Emotional Ritual: Script (2025) commissioned by Department of Arts Development and premiered by co-composed team of Taiwan Sound Lab, Taiwan, 2 Nov. 2025.
***this work is co-composed and formed by artist Ping-Sheng Wu
Superimposed (s, t) (2025) premiered by Kai-Ting Chang, Ping-Sheng Wu, Sonic Lab Linz, Ars Electronica Festival, Austria. 06 Sep. 2025.
***this work is co-composed and formed by artist Ping-Sheng Wu
After Dancing in the Moonlight(2021, 2024) performed by Ensemble Project 23.6N, at Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, 1st May. 2025.
After Dancing in the Moonlight(2021, 2024) performed by IEMA in Impuls festival 2025
After Dancing in the Moonlight(2024) premiered by Floris van der Veken, Clara de Sousa Gonçalves, Alexander Prill and Martina Madini, in Impuls festival 2025.
Poupées : Tableaux Vivants(2024) premiered by Oishi Masanori, Egawa Ryoko, Tomioka Yuko and Tanaka Takuya in the 2025 Kawasaki ACL Young Composers Competition in Japan
Poupées : Tableaux Vivants (2021, 2024) performed by Ensemble Project 23.6N in Musicians in Residence Winter 2025, Banff, Canada, 17 Jan. 2025.After Dancing in the Moonlight
Khah-ta̍h Khah-ta̍h Khah-ta̍h (2025), the music written for a Picture Book, commissioned by Ministry of Culture Taiwan (R.O.C.) and premiered by Camerata Taiwan for String Trio, Nakanoshima Children's Book Forest（こども本の森 中之島）, 15-17 Aug. 2025.
To Float, to Flutter, what will be?(2025) commissioned and premiered by Camerata Taiwan String Orchestra, as part of their The Tenth Anniversary Concerts in three concert halls, 27 Jul. 03, 09 Aug. 2025.
After Dancing in the Moonlight (2021, 2024) performed by Ensemble Project 23.6N in Musicians in Residence Winter 2025, Banff, Canada, 17 Jan. 2025.
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2023
The Misreading of Penrose (2023) presented in Final Selection Concert: petites formes 2024 at“La Matrice” concert hall, Paris, France, 13 Apr. 2024.
Before the Mist (2021, rev. 2023) (1st movement from Avidyā Mist) premiered by ensemble Atelier XX-21 at CNSMD de Lyon, 06 Dec.
The Seven Rites of Cherry Blossom (2019) performed by TNUA New Music Workshop at The Seoul National University, 17 Nov.
