Education & Experience
Pei-Yu SHI, a composer of instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic music, specializing in audiovisual acousmatic composition, multichannel audio, video and audiovisual art,  performing art. She received a PhD in musical composition from University of Birmingham, UK., a soloist diploma from Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music in Germany, and a master degree of Taipei National University of Arts, Taiwan. Her works have been conferred several international awards, including four first prizes separately from Germany, Portugal, Italy, and performed by international contemporary as well as electroacoustic music festivals/concerts in Asia, the United States, Canada, and European countries. For her musical idea she has been interviewed by Taiwanese, German, French, and Italian media. During her German residency she was a visiting artist/composer at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the Institute of Language and Communication at the Technical University Berlin. She was the jury member of modern music and sound art Berlin, invited by Berlin Government.

Artistic introduction
Her works have been displayed six art creation-periods from 1994 to now. She has integrated traditions of Chinese and western, modern and computer music languages, and has developed her personal musical art system. She has engaged in cross-disciplinary art creation, interpreting and producing her own works that she has transformed literature, philosophy and aesthetic meaning to music construction; by structuring tone/sound to narrate, sculpt, and to form the atmospheres and visual senses, theatrical tensions and contrasts; to represent experimentation of music creations in form, expression, organization, construction and variation, to reflex a multiple personal artistic style.
The work categories of her music include instrumental, vocal [traditional/western instrumental occupations: solo, chamber music, orchestra music, vocal/instrumental music and digital media], computer music [electronic/electroacoustic music, dance/film music, music theatre incl. immersive sound field creation/spatial composition and design], video and audiovisual works, and literary works [novels, essays, ballads, poems, fairy tales]. Direction: music and sound theatre & musical.

International activities [selection]
●  Awards
Double First Prizes [Chamber Music] and [audio and video production-audio part] of International Composition Competition Suono Sonda Italy; First Prize [Electroacoustic Music] of International Composition Competition Musica Viva Portugal; Honorable Mention [Chamber Music and Electronics] of International Composition Competition Sond'Ar-te Portugal; 3rd Prize [Orchestra work] of International Orchestra Composition Competition of Weimarer Frühjahrstage for Contemporary Music Germany; Berlin-Rheinsberger Composition Award Germany [Overall works].

●  Work performances
International Electroacoustic Music Festival [Rome/Nagoya/Seoul/Taipei/Bourges/ London/Invention, Ultraschall Berlin/Piano+, Stimme+, Flying Circus ZKM Karlsruhe]; International Festival of Contemporary Music [MaerzMusik Berlin / Gaudiamus Musiktagen / Ireland / is Arti Litauen / A-Devantgarde Muenchen / Heidelberger Fruehling / KlangGriffe Karlsruhe / Kryptonale Berlin / Rheinsberger Pfingstwerkstatt / Weimarer Frühjahrstage]; ISCM, International Society for Contemporary Music [Stuttgart / Wellington / Voxjo]; ACL, Conference and Festival of Asian Composers League [Taipei / Manila / Seoul / Bangkok]; DEGEN, German Society Electroacoustic Music e.V [Lisbon / Karlsruhe / Weimar]; Work conference Institute of New Music and Musical Development [Darmstadt].

●  Portrait concerts and interviews
[Speech] Institute of Language and Communication at the Technical University Berlin; [Speech] Cologne Society for New Music; [Interview] by Prof. R. Frisius at Work conference of the Institute of New Music and Musical Development Darmstadt; [Musik debuet- episode 11] SWR2, Germany; [Media Interview] Berlin-Rheinsberger Composition Award Germany, First Prize International Composition Competition Musica Viva Portugal; [Portrait concert] Instrumental, vocal and acousmatic electroacoustic music: Moenz Church Salzwedel Germany, Zhong Shan Hall Taipei Taiwan; [Web radio portrait] Electroacoustic music composition: Taukay Edizioni Musicali Italy, German Society of Electroacoustic Music.

●  Commission works
International Festival of Contemporary Music MaerzMusik Berlin [work: Chinese ensemble/trio and acousmatic composition/piano solo]; Ensemble Ascolta Stuttgart Germany [work: octet]; Festival Heidelberger Fruehling [work: violin solo]; Berlin Government [work: ensemble and acousmatic composition].

●  Work outline
■Instrumental music [1994-2011]: Traditional instruments; western instruments; traditional and western instruments combination
■Computer music [2001-2017]: Electronic and electroacoustic music; dance and film music; music theatre incl. immersive sound flied creation; vocal and digital media
■Images and audiovisual works [2011-2020]: Personal website; digital electronic/ electroacoustic series; digital fairy tale; poetry set; songbook series
■Writings [2011-2021]: Handling plan and research report; paper; fiction; prose; poem; lyric; ballade; fairy tale