Hsueh-Yung Shen

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Hsueh-Yung Shen


Biography

Hsueh-Yung Shen (b. 1952, Washington, DC) is an American composer, percussionist and educator.

Dr. Shen had an early start in music, beginning composition at eight. He received most of his musical training with Nadia Boulanger in France, between 1962 and 1966, and also studied with Darius Milhaud in 1967 at Aspen, Colorado, and Leon Kirchner and Lukas Foss at Harvard University between 1969 and 1973. He received his DMA in composition from Stanford University in 1980, and taught at Stanford for two years, and at Harvard for four years.

Since 1987 he has lived in the Austin area in Texas, where he is timpanist with the Austin Lyric Opera, and taught at Southwestern University for 16 years in music theory. His works have been premiered by conductor James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra in New York, the Concord String Quartet, at Wigmore Hall in London by the Menuhin School, Summartonar Festival in the Faeroe Islands, the Corona Guitar Quartet from Copenhagen, Denmark, with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra in Vilnius.


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