Starting from March 2010, Yu-Hui will serve as a Co-Artistic Director of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, along with flutist Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin. Now in its 35th season, Dinosaur Annex is a Bonston-based new music ensemble, which has given hundreds of performances and premieres. Click the following link to learn more about Dinosaur Annex: <http://www.dinosaurannex.org/>.
Yu-Hui is among the five recipients of the 2009 General Commission awards given by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition. With this commission, she will be writing a piece, co-commissioned by the Triple Helix Piano Trio, for piano trio and women’s choir.
Yu-Hui is recently awarded a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. With this Fellowship, she will be on leave from Brandeis during the academic year 2009-2010.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has offered Yu-Hui an appointment as a Fellow. During the academic year 2010-2011, she will be joining scholars from other professional and artistic fields for her residency at the institute.
Yu-Hui has just received a commission award from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, in recognition of her “valuable contributions to the music of our time.” It is given towards her new piece titled At the Brink of the Chill, commissioned by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. It will be premiered in May 2009 at San Francisco.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has awarded Yu-Hui a Charles Ives Fellowship, which is given annually to “composers of exceptional gifts.”
Yu-Hui is given a commission award from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University.
The Copland House has selected Yu-Hui as one of the recipient for the 2008 Aaron Copland Award. With this award, Yu-Hui will reside in Aaron Copland’s house in the Hudson River Valley during this fall and winter. She plans to work on two projects during this residency – a percussion ensemble piece commissioned by the Ju Percussion Group, and a piano quintet for the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble.
Her music is characterized by energy, precision, ingenious effects, and vibrant colors – all in the pursuit of a deep connection with humanity. She strives to break through cultural and stylistic boundaries, and to take an inclusive view of musical diversity. This attitude is manifested in the multifaceted quality of her compositional output, and the stylistic fluidity in her writing.
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