Upcoming/Recent Events

2024         
  • Apr. Commission-in-progress for dizi, erhu/voice, ruan, flute, guitar and cello, Sound of Dragan Ensemble, Canada, funded by British Columbia Arts Council, Canada
  • Apr. UBC Contemporary Players Ensemble Concert, Vancouver, Canada 
  • Mar. Commission-in-progress, for alto/sop saxophone and piano, commission by Timothy McAllister, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (for concert tours and to be released on Project Encore Volume II in August 2024)
  • Mar. 7, Commission-in-progress, for sinfonietta: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, F horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion (2), harp/piano, and 1,1,1,1,1, to be premiered and recorded by New Music Ensemble, Indiana Univ. USA
2023
  • Fall, Diversities for cello and piano, Provintia for solo violin, Benjamin Sung, Boyan Bonev, WFSU Public Media, PBS TV show, USA
  • Commission-in-progress, for percussion and piano, commission and to be premiered by NOWICKI DUO, Poland
  • Commission-in-progress, for cello and piano, commission and to be premiered by Ai-Lin Bardin and Naomi Niskala (Bardin-Niskala Duo).
  • Commission-in-process for flute (solo or with 1-2 instruments from violin, cello and percussion), to be premiered by Cheng-Yu Wu, Time Art Studio, Taipei, Taiwan, funded by Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation
  • Nov.【再見1991】“Nostalgia 1991”for dizi, erhu, pipa, Liuqin/ruan, yangqin and zheng, Chai Found Music Workshop, ACL-Taiwan 50th Anniversary Music Exhibition, National Recital Hall, Taipei, TAIWAN
  • Aug. Arirang Fantasia, NAFA saxophone quartet, Singapore Saxophone Symposium
  • Aug. Modus Tollens [“2020”], Chun Hao Ku & I-An Chen, Singapore Saxophone Symposium
  • May, Commission-in-process Suites for string orchestra, commission & premiere by MoonString Orchestra, Taoyuan Arts Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, funded by Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation
  • May, Commission-in-process String Quartet, commission & premiere by MoonString String Quartet, Taoyuan Arts Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, funded by Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation
  • Mar.31-Apr.2, Modus Tollens [“2020”], Matthew Tracy, North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
  • Mar. 15, “Gin-a Koa” & “Diversities”, Ingrid Chang, UBC Faculty Noon Concert, Vancouver, Canada
  • Mar.10-11, Gín-á Koa, Yang Liu and I-Hsuan Olivia Tsai, CMS 2023 Great Lakes Conference, Bowling Green State Univ., OH, USA
  • Feb. 24, Diversities for cello & piano, Bardin-Niskaka Duo, Old First Concerts, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Jan 20, Gín-á Koa, Christina Adams and Sungho Jung, Song and Dance, Barness Recital Hall, USF, Tampa, FL, USA
  • Jan 16-27, Gín-á Koa, Yang Liu and I-Hsuan Olivia Tsai, Festival Internacional Sesc de Música, Pelotas, Brazil
2022
  • Dec. 22, Layers of Waves, Instrumental Romance LV, Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra, National Recital Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Dec. 21, Sentiments, Dr. Chia-Wei Lee & Dr. Gloria Nye-Sin Yeh, Lecture Recital at NPTU Pingshih Campus Round Hall, Taiwan
  • Dec. 15-17, Tripartite Synapse, world premiere by Ding Yi Music Company, Ding Yi Chinese Chamber Music Festival 2022, Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore
  • Nov. 6, Hakka Balladry I & II, MoonString Soloists String Quartet, Taoyuan Northern Region Hakka Assembly Hall (Taoyuan North District Hakka Hall), Taoyuan, Taiwan
  • Nov. 6, Diversities for cello & piano, Bardin-Niskala Duo, Sharon Lutheran Church, Selinsgrove, PA, USA
  • Nov. 5, Diversities for cello & piano, Bardin-Niskala Duo, Björling Recital Hall, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN, USA
  • Nov. 5, Diversities for soprano saxophone and piano, Mattia Grott and Cosimo Colazzo, AgorArt Ensemble, Diversi, Plurali e Meticci. (Prismi culturali, nuove composizioni) “Différences (2)” Mondi diversi / Different Worlds, Sala Filarmonica, Rovereto, Italy
  • Nov. 5. Formosan Duology for flute, clarinet and harp, Tommaso Maria Maggiolini, Irene Chen and Elisa Netzer, “Conversazione” MusikHug series, Lugano, Swaziland
  • Nov. 4. Formosan Duology for flute, clarinet and harp, Tommaso Maria Maggiolini, Irene Chen and Elisa Netzer, MusikHug series, Arsenalstrasse 27, 6010, Kriens, Swaziland
  • Nov. 4, Gín-á Koa, Yang Liu and I-Hsuan Olivia Tsai, Illinois Music Teacher Association, Charleston, IL, USA
  • Nov. 3. Formosan Duology for flute, clarinet and harp, Tommaso Maria Maggiolini, Irene Chen and Elisa Netzer, MusikHug series, Limmatquai 28, 8001, Zurich, Swaziland
  • Nov. 2. Formosan n Duology for flute, clarinet and harp, premiere by Tommaso Maria Maggiolini, Irene Chen and Elisa Netzer, MusikHug series, Binningerstrasse 152, 4123 Allschwil, Basel, Swaziland
  • October 27, a monographic concert (Zusammenflusses, Isolation & Hysteria, Provintia, String Quartet No.4 “Magratories”, Bagatelles I, Protectives & Congruence, Nostalgia 1991, Dichotomy), perform by NeoQuartet, Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra, Paweł Nowicki, Andrzej Wojciechowski & Paweł Zagańczyk, NeoArte Syntezator Sztuki Festival, Sala Mieszczańska Ratusza Staromiejskiego (Old-Town City Hall), Gdansk, Poland
  • Oct. 27, Dichotomy【成雙成對、駟(拭)目以待】, for dizi (Dadi, Qudi and Bangdi), 37 pipes traditional soprano sheng, viola and violoncello, to be premiered in Poland and later in Taiwan, funded by Barlow Endowment, USA
  • Oct. 21, Taiwan Trilogy: mvt II. Tiu-tiu Tâng-á for SATB choir, commissioned and premiered by Trinity University Chamber Singers, conducted by Dr. Gary Seighman, Margarite B. Parker Chapel, San Antonio, TX, USA
  • Oct. 21, Harvest Hope for female (treble) choir, Voix d'Esprit, conducted by Dr. Gary Seighman, Margarite B. Parker Chapel, San Antonio, TX, USA
  • Oct. 18-21, Diversities for cello & piano, Bardin-Niskaka Duo, Butler University Signature Series, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall, Robertson Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
  • Oct. 18, Sentiments, Chia-wei Lee & Zachary Ridgway, Stieren Arts Enrichment Series, Ruth Taylor Recital Hall, Trinity Univ., San Antonio,  Texas, USA
  • Oct. 17 Diversities for cello & piano, Bardin-Niskaka Duo, Bryan Recital Hall, Moore Musical Arts Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA
  • Oct. 15, Zusammenflusses, Piotr Nowicki and Paweł Nowicki, Nowicki/Nowicki Duo, Music at Full 2022, Ľudovít Fulla Gallery, Makovického 1, Ružomberok, Slovakia
  • Oct. 12, Sentiments, Chia-wei Lee, An Evening of Music by Taiwanese Composers, Syracuse University, USA 
  • Oct. 3, Gin-a Koa, Yang Liu and I-Hsian Olivia Tsai, Guarneri Hall, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Oct. 2 Sound Color Density, Taiwan-Germany collaboration concert, Chamber Music Hall, Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Germany, funded by Taiwan Ministry of Culture
  • Oct. 1, Dots, Lines, Convergence and Zheng Tu, Haiqiong Deng and Nashville Intersection Contemporary Music Ensemble, Nashville, TN, USA
  • Sept. 31, Dots, Lines, Convergence, Haiqiong Deng and Nashville Intersection Contemporary Music Ensemble, Nashville, TN, USA
  • Sept. 27 Diversities for cello & piano, Bardin-Niskaka Duo, Gore Recital Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
  • Sept. 24-27, Gin-a Koa, Yang Liu and I-Hsian Olivia Tsai, CMS National Conference, Long Beach, CA, USA
  • Sept. 18 Diversities for cello & piano, Bardin-Niskaka Duo, Chapel Restoration Sunday Music Concert Series, Cold Spring, NY, USA
  • Sept. 12 Diversities for cello & piano, Bardin-Niskaka Duo, Stretansky Concert Hall, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, USA
  • Sept. 5, Diversities, for soprano saxophone and piano, Giovanni De Luca & Francesco Silvestri, Tropea, Italy
  • Sept. 4, Epigrams, The Watch, Ginger, Odelya Trio, AvantGarten Liedberg 2022 Neue Musik und Klangcollagen IN + OUT MUZIEK BIENNALE NIEDERRHEIN, Sandbauernhof Liedberg, Korschenbroich, Germany 
  • Sept. 4, Divergence & Convergence, Dirk Amrein, final concert at the Netzwerk Musik in Freiheit, Burg (Schloss) Hohenfels, Germany
  • Sept. 4,【再見1991】“Nostalgia 1991”for dizi, erhu, pipa, Liuqin/ruan, yangqin and zheng, commission and premiere by Chai Found Music Workshop, National Recital Hall, Taipei, TAIWAN
  • Sept. 4, Taiwan Balladry, 4 pieces for string orchestra, commissioned and premiered by MoonString Orchestra, Taoyuan Arts Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan
  • Aug. 31, Diversities, for soprano saxophone and piano, Giovanni De Luca & Francesco Silvestri, “down the road” at i Concerti dell’ Auditorium Marianum, Perugia, Italy
  • July, Water Rings for two violins & piano, L'etoile Duo, Tanglewood, USA
  • July 7, Divergence & Convergence, Dirk Amrein with painter Guillermo Leon, arranged by Prof. João Luiz Areias, Universidade do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Brazil.
  • June 25, Divergence & Convergence, Dirk Amrein, Günter Wallraff Stonehouse, Cologne, Germany
  • June 12, Sentiments, Chia-Wei Lee Recital: From Romantic to Contemporary, Banana Music, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • June 12, Divergence & Convergence, Dirk Amrein, efringen-kirchen privat concert, dedicates to famous artist Margarethe Scherer, the widow of Karl Heinz Scherer, Efringen-Kirchen, Germany
  • May 25, Reclamation, Reconstruction, Reinstall, Rehabilitation, Reinstate “교정🡪재건🡪재설치🡪복직/복권🡪복위” for Korean Saenghwang and Ajaeng, ACL-Korea 2022 International Music Festival, PRUGIO Art Hall, Seoul, Korea
  • May 21, Piano Trio--Realization, Views, Heart Frustration, Nostalgia 【意、象、心、念】, 2022 Nanhua University "Symposium of New Works and Research into Contemporary Composers” (May 21, 2022)
  • May, Diversities, for cello & piano, Giovanni De Luca, Kraków, Poland.
  • Apr. 29, Zusammenflusses, Robert McCormick and Eunmi Ko, Music She Writes, Eastman Virtual Concert Series, USA
  • Apr. 23, Diversities, for soprano saxophone and piano, Giovanni De Luca, II level Master in Contemporary Music, ORGANO E SALA ACCADEMICA - Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia - Rome, Italy
  • Apr. 5, The Watch and Diamond Impressions, Chia-wei Lee, Jazz Concert, Trinity University, Texas, USA
  • Mar. 31, Rights, Fairness, Equality vs. Suppression, commissioned and world premiere by Jason S. Ladd, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA, USA
  • Mar. 26, Multi-cultural songs, Chia-Wei Lee and Tzu-Feng Liu, Austin, Texas, USA
  • Mar. 25, Multi-cultural songs, Chia-Wei Lee and Tzu-Feng Liu, Ruth Taylor Recital Hall, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA
  • Mar, Diversities for saxophone and piano, Giovanni De Luca, duo TWO for NEWS (Italy)
  • Mar. 13, 14, 16, "SHE: Festival of Women in Music", visual festival, University of Arkansas, USA
  • Mar. 11, Diamond Impressions, Alice Chung and Helen Zhibing Huang, Girls of Yellow Diamonds—Songs of Asian-American Women, presented by wear yellow proudly, The Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Mar. 13, Modus Tollens [“2020”] for alto saxophone and piano, Matthew Tracy, 2022 North American Saxophone Alliance, Oklahoma State University, OK, USA
  • Mar. 6, Gín-á Koa, for violin & piano, Christina Adams Faculty Recital, USF Barness Recital Hall, Tampa, FL, USA 
  • Mar. 6, Momentum Confluence Metaphysical Elaboration (MCME), Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Hot Air Music Festival, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, CA, USA
  • Feb. 25-26, ZAS!, Shyen Lee, International Conference for Saxophone Pedagogy and Performance, Univ. of Florida, FL, USA (canceled due to COVID infection of performer)
  • Feb. 6, Sentiments, Voices of VITAs 2022, Southminster Presbyterian Church, Prairie Village, Kansas City, KS, USA
  • Feb. 4, Dance Fusion, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano, FSU New Music Festival, Opperman Recital Hall, Tallahassee, FL, USA
  • Jan. 16, Divergence & Convergence, Dirk Amrein, St. Chrischona Bettingen, Basel, Switzerland

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