CV
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
* Teaching Assistant, The College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell University
- Fall Semester, 2022 Introduction to Computer Music
* TK-3 Elementary School Classroom Music Educator, Music for Minors, San Carols, CA
* Program Specialist, Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, CA
* Live Stream Producer and Technician, Little Dog Live, NY
- Event: Music Academy of the West Summer Festival
* Teaching Assistant, School of Education, University of California, Irvine
- Spring Quarter, 2016 Adolescent Development
* Teaching Assistant, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine.
- Fall Quarter, 2014 Music Theory A
- Winter Quarter, 2015 Music Theory B
- Spring Quarter, 2015 Music Theory C
- Summer Session, 2015 Introduction to Music (Online Course)
- Fall Quarter, 2015 Music Theory/Musicianship D
- Winter Quarter, 2016 Music Theory B
- Spring Quarter, 2016 Music Theory C
* Graduate Student Teaching Intern, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa.
- Summer Session, 2015, Musicianship
- Fall Semester, 2015, Music Theory
- Spring Semester, 2015, Music Theory
* Peer Mentor, Summer Research Program Symposium, University of California, Irvine.
* Composer in Residence, Yunlin Sharing Chamber Orchestra, Taiwan.
AFFILIATIONS
* Board Member International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) 2019-2021
* Co-Founder Interdisciplinary Artists Collective fff 2018-present
* Co-Founder Experimental Pop Duet Meoark 2018-present
* Member Stanford New Ensemble (SNE) 2018-2021
* Member Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) 2014-2020
* Member California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT) 2014-2020
* Member UC Student-Workers Union UAW 2865 2014-2016
COMMISSIONS
* JACK Studio (NYC, U.S.)
- JACK Studio Commissioned Artist (2020-2022)
* I Care If You Listen (U.S.)
- "Casting Light" essay series on the often invisible inequities in contemporary arts spaces
* National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY, U.S.)
- Live@NationalSawdust Digital Discovery Festival (2020)
* White Snake Project (Boston, MA, U.S.)
- Project / SING OUT STRONG: DeColonized Voices (2020)
- Project / SING OUT STRONG: Immigrant Voices (2019)
* New Music On The Point (Leicester, VT, U.S.)
- Project / Alum Commissioning Project (2020) / Supported by the Robert Black Foundation
* Baroque Camerata (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
- Album / TBA (2020)
- Album / Music Journey (2018)
- Album /Touching (2016)
- Album / Sensation (2014)
* Sharing Chamber Orchestra (Yunlin, Taiwan)
- Album / 20th Anniversary Project (2020)
PERFORMANCES (Guest Artist)
* 2020 Sonorities Festival Belfast 2020: Immersive Audio for the Sonic Lab (Belfast, NIR, U.K.)
- Immersive Audio for the Sonic Lab at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC)
* 2020 CCRMA Quarantine Sessions #9 & #45 (Stanford, CA, U.S.)
- A Distributed Electroacoustic Network Improvisation between California (US), Berlin (DE), and Ghent (BE)
* 2020 She Scores Festival (Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.)
- Women+ Experimental, Experimental and improvised music and sound-based performance
* 2019 UCI Illuminations (Irvine, CA, U.S.)
- Asian Immigration as Creative Muse
RESIDENCIES
* 2021 Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA) #182 with Marcos Balter (New Smyrna Beach, FL, U.S.)
FESTIVALS
* 2022 MATA Festival (NYC, NY, US)
- Curated by Darius Jones (Artist-In-Residence), performed by International Contemporary Ensemble at Roulette
* 2022 Int-Act Festival (Bangkok, TH)
- Thailand Music and Art Organization, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre
* 2022 MANTIS Festival: Sound in Words (Manchester, UK)
- NOVARS Research Centre, the University of Manchester, Call for work (Piece: Speed Dating)
* 2022 ESPACIOS SONOROS 2022 ( Salta, AR)
- Call for work (Piece: Microuniverse)
* 2022 The Napoleon Electronic Media Festival (NEMF) (Charleston, IL, U.S.)
- Call for work (Piece: Doyennes’ Diaries)
* 2021 NYCEMF New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2021 (NYC, NY)
- Call for work (Piece: Doyennes’ Diaries)
* 2021 Hot Air Music Festival (San Francisco, CA, U.S.)
- Call for work (Piece: Doyennes’ Diaries)
* 2020 Sonorities Festival Belfast (Belfast, NIR, U.K.)
- Sonic Lab at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Call for work (Piece: Speed Dating)
* 2020 SICMF Seoul International Computer Music Festival (KEAMS) (Seoul, South Korea)
- Call for Score (Piece: Doyennes’ Diaries)
* 2020 26th Young Composers Meeting (Apeldoorn, NL)
- Organized by orkest de ereprijs, the Gaudeamus Foundation, Podium Gigant Apeldoorn
* 2019 Laboratoire de musique contemporaine de Montréal (Montreal, QC, Canada)
- Partners: Suoni per il popolo, Codes d’accès, SOCAN Foundation, Université Concordia, CMQM
* 2018 New Music On the Point Festival (NMOP) (Leicester, VT, U.S.)
CONFERENCES
* 2022 International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) conference (Corvallis, OR, US)
- Oregon State University, Call for work (Piece: Doyennes’ Diaries)
- Moderator
* 2021 ICMC International Computer Music Conference 2021 (Santiago, Chile)
- Performance
* 2021 SEAMUS 2021 Virtual National Conference (U.S.)
- Performance
* 2020 New Music Gathering (Portland, OR, U.S.)
- Lecture-recital: Speed Dating with Randy the Squireel
* 2020 eavesdropping symposium: creative activism: radical responses within new music (London, ENG, U.K.)
- Lecture-recital: I kid You Not- Activist, Humor, and Experimental Music Theatre
* 2020 Irish Sound, Science & Technology Association, Sonic Practice Now (ISSTA) (Ireland)
- Performance & Discussion
* 2019 VU 3, a symposium for experimental, electronic and improvised music (Park City, UT, U.S.)
- Lecture-recital: I kid You Not- Activist, Humor, and Experimental Music Theatre
- Panel Discussion: Creative Process
* 2019 University of Pittsburgh, Music and Erotics (Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.)
- Call for Score & Round-table Discussion (Performer in Residence: Anna Elder)
* 2016 University of California, Irvine, New Expressions: Women in Music Technology (Irvine, CA, U.S.)
- Committee member
* 2015 Eureka! Musical Minds of California Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.)
- Call for Score (Ensemble in Residence: Amaranth String Quartet)
GRANTS
* New Music USA's Creator Development Fund Grants (2021)
* MTNA Teacher Enrichment Grant, Foundation Fund, Music Teachers National Association (2017)
* Experimental Performance Lab (xMPL) Technology Support Grant, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine (2015)
SCHOLARSHIPS
* Associate Artist Scholarship, Atlantic Center for the Arts (2021)
* Bursary Award, SARC, Queen's University Belfast (2020)
* Gender Diversity in Computer Music Scholarship, CCRMA, Stanford University (2019 & 2016)
- Workshop: Designing Physical Interactions for Music; Audio Plug-Ins Designed with Faust
* Mentor Graduate Diversity Awards, DECADE Program, University of California, Irvine (2015)
- Community Commissioning Project in partnership with DECADE program, Bowers Museum, and the Orange County Historical Society.
* Graduate Research & Travel Grant Award, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine (2015 & 2016)
* Outstanding Academic Award, College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-Sen University (2011)
* Outstanding Composition Award, Department of Music, National Sun Yat-Sen University (2010, 2011 & 2012)
GUEST LECTURES
* 2021 The University of Western Ontario (UWO) (London, Ont, Canada)
- Guest speaker series—A panel on gender equity in music technology
- Course: Technology in Music Education, instructed by Jashen Edwards (Winter Term, 2020)
* 2018 National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) (Taipei, Taiwan)
- Topic: Creative Practice and Interactive Technology in Contemporary Music
- Course: Computer Music II, instructed by Chien-Yu Huang (Spring Semester, 2018)
* 2017 National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan)
- Topic: Interdisciplinarity and Free Improvisation in Music Composition and Performance
- Course: Composition Forum (Spring Semester, 2017)
* 2016 University of California, Irvine (UCI) (Irvine, CA, U.S.)
- Topic: Introduction to 4th Species Counterpoint
- Course: Music Theory C, supervised by Lukas Ligeti (Spring Quarter, 2016)
* 2015 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) (Berkeley, CA, U.S.)
- Topic: On My Way: Cultural Experiences and Identities of 1st, 1.5, and 2nd Generation Asian American
- Course: Music in American Culture, instructed by Carla Brunet (Summer Session, 2015)
* 2014 National Chung Cheng University (CCU) (Chiayi, Taiwan)
- Topic: Director without a Script: My life experiences and compositions
- Course: Music Appreciation, instructed by Fu-chin Huang (2014 & 2016)
* 2014 National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (NYUST) (Yunlin, Taiwan)
- Topic: Director without a Script: My life experiences and compositions
- Course: Music Appreciation, instructed by Fu-chin Huang (2014 & 2016)
COLLABORATIONS (As a Composer)
Ensembles
International Contemporary Ensemble (NYC, U.S.)
National Sawdust Ensemble (NYC, U.S.)
JACK Quartet (NYC, NY, U.S.)
NOMON (NYC, NY, U.S.)
Amaranth Quartet (San Francisco, CA, U.S.)
Stanford New Music Ensemble (Stanford, CA, U.S.)
Kamratōn Ensemble (Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.)
Ensemble Instrumental de l'ESM Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (Dijon, FR)
orkest de ereprijs (Apeldoorn, NL)
Taipei Symphony Orchestra (Taipei, Taiwan)
Tone Melody Flute Ensemble (Taipei, Taiwan)
Baroque Camerata (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Muse Trio (Yunlin, Taiwan)
Yunlin Sharing Chamber Orchestra (Yunlin, Taiwan)
Musicians
bassist Robert Black (USA); Dylan Romaine (USA); Laura Nygren (Netherlands);
soprano Anna Elder (USA); Kirsten Wiest (USA); Elizabeth Gartman (USA);
percussionist Ian Rosenbaum (USA); Greg Stuart (USA); Colin McCall (USA); Niki Johnson (Australia);
taiko/shakuhachi player Shi-wei Willie Wu (USA);
clarinetist Christine Hoerning (Canada); Julia Lougheed (USA)
saxophonist Antonin Bourgault (Canada);
lute player Anson Brown (USA);
guitarist Anthony Caulkins (USA); Jordan Watson (USA);
accordion player Borey Shin (USA);
harpist Chia-ling Chang (Taiwan);
multi-instrumentalist Hassan Estakhrian (USA); Molly Jones (USA);
Artists
media artist Simona Fitcal (Romania);
choreographer Boroka Nagy (Hungary/USA);
visual artist Christopher Wong (USA);
animator Chun-wei Kuo (Taiwan); Yue Huang (China);
model Sharon Kuo (Taiwan/USA); Edmund Truong (USA);
actor Desiree Nguyen (USA); Ryan Schwalm (USA);
lighting designer Sarah Resch (USA).
Venues
National Sawdust (NYC, NY, U.S.)
Roulette Intermedium (NYC, NY, U.S.)
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) (Stanford, CA, U.S.)
Bing Concert Hall Studio (Stanford, CA, U.S.)
Dinkelspiel Auditorium (Stanford, CA, U.S.)
Cornell Cinema (Ithaca, NY, U.S.)
Milstein Hall (Ithaca, NY, U.S.)
Orange County Museum of Arts (Santa Ana, CA, U.S.)
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) (Irvine, CA, U.S.)
Winifred Smith Hall (Irvine, CA, U.S.)
Emerson Paramount Theatre (Boston, MA, U.S.)
Multicultural Arts Center (Boston, MA, U.S.)
Pao Performing Arts Center ((Boston, MA, U.S.)
CitySpace (Boston, MA, U.S.)
Katzin Concert Hall (Temple, AZ, U.S.)
Montreal Conservatory of Music (Montreal, QC, Canada)
Resonance Café (Montreal, QC, Canada)
Casa Obscura (Montreal, QC, Canada)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon (Dijon, FR)
Podium Gigant (Apeldoorn, NL)
Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast, NIR, UK)
Jayu Theater, Seoul Arts Center (Seoul, South Korea)
National Theater and Concert Hall (Taipei, Taiwan)
Forum Music: Musical Performing Arts Theater (Taipei, Taiwan)
National Taichung Theater (Taichung, Taiwan)
Kaohsiung Cultural Center (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Yunlin County Cultural Center (Yunlin, Taiwan)
COLLABORATIONS (As a Performer)
Ensemble
International Contemporary Ensemble (NYC, U.S.)
Sō Percussion (NYC, NY, U.S.)
St. Lawrence String Quartet (Canada)
Stanford New Music Ensemble (Stanford, CA, U.S.)
Antenna Fuzz (Los Angeles, CA, U.S.)
Taiko Center of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA, U.S.)
Yunlin Sharing Chamber Orchestra (Yunlin, Taiwan)
Festivals
MATA Festival (NYC, NY)
West Hollywood Dance Festival (Santa Monica, CA)
FOUR: New Dances at Stanford TAPS (Stanford, CA)
Venues
Roulette Intermedium (NYC, NY, U.S.)
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) (Stanford, CA, U.S.)
Bing Concert Hall (Stanford, CA, U.S.)
Dinkelspiel Auditorium (Stanford, CA, U.S.)
Roble Dance Studio (Stanford, CA, U.S.)
Highway Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA, U.S.)
Orange County Museum of Arts (Santa Ana, CA, U.S.)
Experimental Performance Lab (xMPL) (Irvine, CA, U.S.)
Winifred Smith Hall (Irvine, CA, U.S.)
Resonance Café (Montreal, QC, Canada)
Yunlin County Cultural Center (Yunlin, Taiwan)
AWARDS
* The American Prize in Opera, Theater, Film, Dance-- Student Division, 1st Prize Winner (2017); Finalist (2015)
- Projects: To be Heard X Unheard; Lost, am I
* ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, Finalist (2019 & 2017)
- Projects: Voir dire; To be Heard X Unheard
* u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD (Ars Electronica) in Digital Music, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan, 1st Prize Winner, (2007)
- Piece: Prospering
* Reno Pops Orchestra Composer’s Night Competition, Second Runner Up (2016)
- Piece: The Narrator
* IVC Music: Student Composers Competition, Honorable Mention (2015)
- Piece: Mujeres
* The American Tracks Music Awards in Best Female Performer, Winner (2017)
- Song: Lullaby of Nostalgia
* 4C Digital Design Awards in Animation Original Score, Industrial Development Bureau Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan, Winner (2013)
- Score: Deathigner
* Taipei Soundscape Program- MRT Station Ambient Music Competition, Taipei City Government and Metro Taipei, Honorable Mention (2017)
- Piece: Soundscape
* Formosa Festival of International Filmmaker Awards (FFIFA), Finalist (2017)
- Film: OMW
PUBLICATIONS
Film
* 2017 On My Way (Documentary)
- Credits: Director, Producer, Film Editor, Writer
Album
* 2010 Music Book, Story Box
- Composer, Performer, Writer
- Recorded by Yunlin Sharing Chamber Orchestra.
Journal
* 2017 ink&coda (issue 4.2 | Summer 2017)
- Piece Published: Preconsciousness
FILM SCORING
Theatre (Scoring & Sound Design)
* 2018 Intermedia Musical: Tdot (Taipei, Taiwan)
* 2015 ¡Diversi…Qué? (Irvine, CA, U.S.)
* 2013 吻在月球崩毀時 (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Film (Scoring & Sound Design)
* 2020 LUCKY - Animation (Los Angeles, CA, U.S.)
* 2019 The Missing Ingredient - Animation (Los Angeles, CA, U.S.)
* 2014 Rosemary - Animation (NYC, NY, U.S.)
* 2014 曇華 - Animation (Taipei, Taiwan)
* 2014 Ciao - Animation (Taichung, Taiwan)
* 2013 Deathigner - Animation (Taipei, Taiwan)
Commercial (Scoring)
* 2013 佐心房釉新室 (Taipei, Taiwan)
* 2009 International 21st Summer Deaflympics (Taipei, Taiwan)