Shiuan Chang
Currently serving as Artist-in-Residence with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra (2025–2027), Shiuan Chang has been described as “spiritual, light, and comforting” (Classic Agenda, FR), and as music that “grounds memory and emotion when we are adrift” (I CARE IF YOU LISTEN).
He is the recipient of the 2018 Chicago Civic Symphony Composer Prize and the 2021 Asian Cultural Council Award, and has received residencies from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (2021) and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation (2022), as well as the 2023 ACF | Create Grant.
His recent major productions include "Sounding Light (2020)," collaborating with the Cloudgate Dance Theater of Taiwan; Two flagship productions of the Taiwan International Festival of Arts: "I-Village (2021)," collaborating with the Sheng-Xiang Rock Band and the National Symphony Orchestra, and "A thousand stages, Yet I have never quite lived (2021)" collaborating with the Peking Opera artist Hei-Min Wei and National Symphony Orchestra, directed by Kengsen Ong; “Fateless Love (2022)” for orchestra, choir, and three singers premiered by National Symphony Orchestra; Violin Concerto 23.5N / 121E (2025) premiered by violinist Inmo Yang, conductor Nicholas Carter and Taipei Symphony Orchestra.
Shiuan's music has been performed nationally and internationally at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center Rose Theater, Merkin Hall, Suntory Hall, Jordan Hall, Moscow Philharmonic Chamber Hall, Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall, Chicago Symphony Center, Taiwan National Concert Hall, Le Phenix Valenciennes, Royaumont, Weimar Kunstfest, Archipel Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, Grafenegg Festival, and the Bartok Festival. In addition, he has been commissioned and collaborated with the Tonkunstler Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan Philharmonic, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, Chicago Civic Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Ictus Ensemble, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Asasello Quartett, TANA Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Atlas Ensemble, Ensemble Multilaterale, Ensemble Musicatreize, Earplay Ensemble, Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart, Ekmeles Ensemble, Les Metabole, Princeton Singers, and Orkest de Ereprijs.
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.
