Center for Taiwain Studies Grand Opening

Born in Taipei, Kuei-ju Lin is a Taiwanese composer who enjoys working with acoustic and electroacoustic instruments, sound installations and interdisciplinary collaborations in both theater and dance. She has collaborated extensively with Taiwan’s theatre and dance groups.

Her music has been performed in concerts and festivals in Taiwan and internationally, including Festival d’Avignon Off (France), Busan International Performing Arts Festival (Korea), OzAsia Festival (Australia), as well as in Japan, Poland, Canada and across the United States.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Composition from the Taipei National University of the Arts and a Ph.D. in Composition from UC San Diego. She is currently an associate professor at Shih-Chien University, and the core artist of the M.O.V.E. Theater Group, Taiwan.

SANGPUY comes from an ancient Pinuyumayan indigenous tribe, Katratripulr, in Taiwan’s Pacific southeast coast, where the mountain meets the ocean.

In Katratipulr, SANGPUY has learned traditional tribal music, language, culture and traditions. Currently only about one thousand people can speak the Katratipulr tribal language fluently. He is the recipient of three Best Vocalist Awards (Indigenous Language) and two Best Album Awards from Taiwan’s Golden Melody Awards.

Aiyun Huang enjoys a musical life as soloist, chamber musician, researcher, teacher and producer. Since winning the 2002 First Prize and Audience Prize of the Geneva International Music Competition, Huang has been a sought after international artist.

She has commissioned and premiered over two hundred works in her three decades as a soloist and chamber musician. The Globe and Mail critic Robert Everett-Green describes Huang’s playing as “engrossing to hear and to watch” and her choice of repertoire as capable of “renovating our habits of listening.”

Her past highlights include performances at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, Weill Recital Hall in New York, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra’s Green Umbrella Series, LACMA Concert Series, Holland Festival, Agora Festival in Paris, Banff Arts Festival, 7éme Biennale d’Art Contemporaine de Lyon, Vancouver New Music Festival, CBC Radio, La Jolla Summerfest, Scotia Festival, Cool Drummings, Montreal New Music Festival, Centro Nacional Di Las Artes in Mexico City, Cervantino Festival, and National Concert Hall and Theater in Taipei. Her recent highlights include performances with St. Lawrence String Quartet, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Taipei Symphony Orchestra and San Diego Symphony Orchestra. 

Aiyun grew up in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and holds a DMA degree from UC San Diego. She is the Head of Percussion at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto and she serves as the Artistic Director for soundSCAPE Festival in Blonay, Switzerland.

Michael Jones (he/they) is a percussionist, improviser and conductor based in San Diego. His work focuses on new works by emerging composers as well as the canonical repertoire of the 20th century avant-garde. They can be heard on the New World, Cold Blue, New Focus and Wandelweiser Editions labels. They regularly perform as a member of the percussion group red fish blue fish and the William Winant Percussion Group.

Kosuke Matsuda is originally from Nagasaki, Japan, where he began his music career as a percussionist. He currently lives in San Diego as a doctoral student at UC San Diego. He has collaborated and performed with renowned artists and groups such as Steven Schick, Roger Reynolds, Rand Steiger, Svet Stoyanov, Kunihiko Komori, Lancaster Symphonic Orchestra, and New World Symphony Orchestra. Matsuda is an active red fish blue fish member and director of LAMP (Lighting Art Music Projection) Production director.