YI-DE CHEN
YI-DE CHEN is a composer from Taiwan whose musical language manifests diversity, spirituality, poetic sense. He demonstrates talent in the combination of composition, improvisation, and synesthesia.
A grant recipient from the Taiwan Ministry of Culture and National Culture and Arts Foundation, Chen’s works have been performed in music festivals, including the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the Charlotte New Music Festival, the ACL Conference & Festival in Japan, and the Taipei International New Music Festival. Also, he has received commissions from the Beo String Quartet, the Indiana University JSoM Concert Band, Ensemble KNM Berlin, Malaysia Dá Capo Voice Choir, Hong Kong Dufy Atelier des Musicians & Artists, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Elite Artists Trio, and Nan-Yi Musical Theater.
Chen has gained attention for performances of his arrangements of Taiwanese folk songs. In addition, he contributes his talents to film scoring. For instance, he wrote soundtracks for the film, The Star and the Moon (Co-Composer), selected in the 68th Festival de Cannes, France in 2015, as well as the movie Time Splits in the River (Co-Composer), chosen in the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, the Czech Republic in 2017.
Chen is currently a doctoral candidate in composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the tutelage of Profs. John Gibson, Chi Wang, Aaron Travers, Claude Baker, and P. Q. Phan. He received his M.M. in composition from the IU JSoM, where he studied with Profs. Don Freund and P. Q. Phan. He received his M.M. and B.A. in composition from the Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan, where his teachers included Prof. Tsung-Hsien Yang and Prof. Chung-Kun Hung.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Coming Soon
SELECTED MEDIA
Diffusion (2021)
Beo String Quartet
Two Songs (2019)
Ramson Issa, tenor
Mia Tomposen, clarinet
Tyler Taylor, horn
Matthew Schultheis, piano
Wennie Wei, vlola
Broner McCoy, contrabass
Caio Guimarães, conductor
Prelude to Eudaimonia (2021)
Elijah Buerk, organ
Prof. Jannette Fishell, organ registration assistant
The Impression of a Lake (2013)
Nakagawa Toshio, piano
Variable Motion (2019)
Graeme Sugden, flute
Eli Willis, violin
Zephaniah Pearlstein, violoncello
Yuseok Seol, piano
Joshua Catanzaro, conductor
The Story of Pearl Milk Tea (2012)
Yu-Chen Hsiao, percussion I
Ming-Ju Tsai, percussion II
Sheng-Wen Lee, percussion III
Yu-Ru Chang, percussion IV
Su-Han Yang, conductor