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Chiayu was born in Banqiao, Taiwan. She was the winner of Suzanne and Lee
Ettelson Composer’s Awards, 2013 IAWM Search for New Music, Copland House
Award, Lynn University international call for scores, the 2010 Sorel Organization
recording grant, music culture 2009 International Competition for Composers, the
Sorel Organization’s 2nd International Composition Competition, the 7th USA
International Harp Composition Competition, ASCAP Morton Gould Young
Composer’s Awards, the Maxfield Parrish Composition Contest, the Renée B. Fisher
Foundation Composer Awards among others. Her work has been performed by the
London Sinfonietta, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony,
the Nashville Symphony, the Toledo Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra,
the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, the Lynn
Philharmonia Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble, Eighth
Blackbird, Ciompi Quartet, and Prism Quartet. She has received her Ph.D. at Duke
University, Master of Music at Yale University School of Music, and Bachelor of
Music at the Curtis Institute of Music.
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