Shiuan CHANG
Describe as " spiritual, light, and comforting." by Classic Agenda (FR), Shiuan is the winner of the 2018 Chicago Civic Symphony Composer Prize and the 2021 Asian Cultural Council award. He is the recipient of the 2021 Djerassi Artist Residency and the 2022 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency Grant. Shiuan is active in outreach programs. In 2015, he produced a full-length show to support the Genesis Social Welfare Foundation, and written documentary film score for the Children Are Us Foundation twentieth anniversary documentary film. His first album《Earthing》commissioned by the Dun Ren Psychiatric Hospital was released in 2024 February.
He was recently invited to work on major productions, including "Sounding Light (2020)" collaborating with the Cloudgate Contemporary Dance company, Two flagship productions of the Taiwan International Festival of Arts: "I-Village (2021)" collaborating with the Sheng-Xiang Rock Band and the Taiwan Philharmonic, and "A thousand stages, Yet I have never quite lived (2021)" collaborating with the Beijing Opera artist Hei-Min Wei and Taiwan Philharmonic, directed by Kengsen Ong. “A Fate So Fleeting, A Love So Deep,” a modern oratorio for Taiwan Philharmonic, Taipei Chamber Singers, and three singers.
CHANG Shiuan’s music have been performed nationally and internationally at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall (New York), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Jordan Hall (Boston), Moscow Philharmonic Chamber Hall, Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall, Chicago Symphony Center, Taiwan National Concert Hall, Bartok Hall (Hungary), ODC Theater (San Fransisco), Le Phenix Valenciennes (FR), Royaumont (Paris), Archipel Festival (Geneva), Tenso Music Days (Belgium), Boston Early Music Festival, Innovation Series Taipei, Grafenegg Festival, and the Bartok Festival (Hungary). He has worked with the Cloudgate Contemporary Dance Company, Tonkunstler Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan Philharmonic, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, Chicago Civic Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Asasello Quartett, TANA Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Atlas Ensemble, Ensemble Multilaterale, Ensemble Musicatreize, Earplay Ensemble, signal ensemble, Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart, Ekmeles Ensemble, Les Metabole, Princeton Singers, and Orkest de Ereprijs,.
