Taiwanese composer Shih-Wei Lo creates music that involves acoustic instruments, voice, digital media, mechatronic art, and interdisciplinary collaboration, among others. His work is often informed by the diverse articulations of time and space in various domains such as art, literature, culture, and politics, and may be viewed as a process of transfiguring these into music, providing the audience with a contemplative medium. His recent projects are highly involved with research and exploration of issues such as identity, sexuality, gender, and ethnic studies.

Currently a Dean's Fellow in GSAS at Columbia University, Shih-Wei is pursuing a DMA in Composition under the tutelage of Georg Friedrich Haas and George Lewis. He earned his MM in Composition from the University of Washington, where he worked with Huck Hodge and Juan Pampin, and also taught at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS). Prior to the graduate studies in the United States, he studied with Ching-Wen Chao and Kris Falk at National Taiwan Normal University, receiving his BFA in Music Theory and Composition.

Shih-Wei has worked with renowned musicians and ensembles such as violists Frank Brakkee and Melia Watras, harpists Miriam Overlach and Shannon Chieh, the Atlas Ensemble, the Nieuw Ensemble, Silbersee (VocaalLab), and Taipei Chamber Singers, among others. A nominee for Gaudeamus Award 2016, his “Madhye II” was recommended by the International Music Council of UNESCO in 2017 at the 64th edition of the International Rostrum of Composers. He was awarded First Prize in the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition as well as Honorable Mention in the 2015 American Composers Forum's National Composition Contest; he also received First Prize and Audience Award in the Dutch Harp Festival and Composition Contest 2014. Being the only young composer who received the Studying Abroad Fellowship twice from the Ministry of Education in Taiwan, he has won national prizes in competitions such as The Voices of Taiwan held by the National Theater Concert Hall and the Literature and Art Creation Awards held by the Ministry of Education. Recent conferences and workshops include Royaumont Academy Voix Nouvelles 2017, the Gaudeamus Muziekweek and Academy 2016, International Computer Music Conference 2016, Atlas Festival 2014 in Amsterdam, the 40th ICMC joint with the 11th Sound & Music Computing conference (SMC), and the 28th Asian Composer League Conference and Festival in South Korea.