Chen-Hui Jen, Composer (1981, Taiwan/USA)

Chen-Hui Jen is a composer, poet, and pianist, whose music presents an imaginative, spiritual, and poetic space with subtlety and sophistication. She writes concert music for diverse instrumentation, including orchestra, chorus, solo and chamber music for western and Asian instruments, as well as electronics. Chen-Hui Jen's musical works reflect an angle of contemporary art music and often evoke a captivating atmosphere that integrates time, sound, color, and poetry. She earned a Ph.D. degree in music at the University of California, San Diego. She currently serves as the pianist in the NODUS New Music Ensemble at Florida International University.

Being one of the awardees of League of American Orchestras Women Composers' Reading and Commission Project and the Copland House Residency, Chen-Hui Jen's music works have been performed at multiple prestigious new music festivals and concerts, including the ISCM World Music Days, SEAMUS, ICMC, Visiones Sonoras, Acanthes Music Festival, ACL Music Festival, EarShot San Diego, ISCM New Music Miami Season, People Inside Electronics series, Taipei International New Music Festival, WOCMAT, ACDA, and Taiwan Contemporary Sizhu Music Festival. She has also received commissions by multiple ensembles including the Ensemble 20° dans le Noir, Aurora Borealis Duo, Accordant Commons, Astralis Duo, The Living Earth Show, Palimpsest Ensemble, Ensemble ISCM-Taiwan, Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra, Taipei Chamber Singers, Müller Chamber Choir, Ching-Yun Chorus, and Kaohsiung Chamber Choir, as well as multiple grants from the Taipei Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Taiwan National and Arts Foundation.

Chen-Hui Jen's piano performances primarily focus on experimental new music and electroacoustic music. She has been performed recitals and concerts at many universities, distinguished venues, and new music festivals, including the Spectrum in New York City, Center for New Music in San Francisco, Miami Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami Beach Urban Studio, Taiwan Chai Found 101 Auditorium, Tulane University, San Francisco State University, Santa Clara University, Florida International University, Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan National Chiao-Tung University, Composers in Asia Symposiums at the University of South Florida, as well as Coral Gables Museum, Taipei National Recital Hall, Festival Cultural de Mayo, Root Signal Festival, FETA Festival etc., in addition to her regular performances at the annual ISCM New Music Miami Season. She has also been collaborating with composer and computer musician Jacob Sudol as Misty Shore Duo, a piano and electronics duo that primarily evocates contemporary experimental music from Asia and America.