A native of Taipei Taiwan, Chiung-Yu Chen was born in 1969. In 1984, major in music composition, she entered the Music Experimentation Class of The Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University and studied under Mao-Shuen Chen and Yen Lu. Starting from 1987, she studied at National Taiwan Normal University under Fan-Long Ko and received the Bachelor degree of Music in 1991. Thereafter she continued to pursue her PhD degree at University of Pennsylvania, USA where she studied with George Crumb, James Primosch, Richard Wernick and Jay Reise. She received her PhD degree in December 1997. Since 1998, Ms. Chen has served on the faculty of the Shi-Chien University in Taipei Taiwan. Currently she is Associate Professor of Music in Theory and Composition at National Taiwan Normal University. Ms. Chen is very active as a composer. She has composed numerous solo, chamber and orchestral works, as well as vocal and choral compositions and has been commissioned by many of the prestigious performers and ensembles.