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Hsin-Jung Tsai

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Hsin-Jung Tsai, a native of Taipei, Taiwan began her piano studies at the age of five, and composition studies at 18. She attended the Hua-Kang Art School in Taipei, where she majored in piano performance. In 1996 she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Music Theory and Composition from the Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan, where she studied with Nan-Chang Chien. Ms. Tsai then came to the United States in the fall of 1997 to study at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College of City University of New York (CUNY), where she received her Master of Music Degree in 1999 while studying with Bruce Saylor. In 2000, she studied at the PhD-DMA program in music composition at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is studying with Tania Leon and Bernadette Speech. Through her involvement in programs such as the Taiwan-Japan Exchange Concert “Euterpe Spring ‘99”, conductors Sung Su Jeong, Chun-Fung Lee, and Lance Inouye as well as the Juilliard String Ensemble, the Contemporary Chamber Orchestra of Taipei, and others have performed Ms. Tsai’s compositions in Japan, Taiwan, and the United States. In May 2000 Ms. Tsai held a program of her chamber music at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall. Among her recent works are two film collaborations, Poetry of A Painter, a clarinet solo piece composed for a short film on the life of the artist Fernando Gerassi; the score for Allatonceness, a multimedia performance where the composer also conducted; music design and improvisation for a documentary film Turning Japanese; music for Palace of Loneliness, a play by Dorothy Tan, produced by MultiStages, Inc. and HERE Theatre for the Performing Arts in New York; The Music Composition Award for Capturing The Spirit of the promotive film from Asian American/ Asian Research Institute in New York; and the score for a documentary film Ocean and People produced by Civilization Explorer Association (CEA). In 2006 Ms. Tsai was invited as a guest composer and held a solo composition recital at Tarrant County College South Campus, Fort Worth, Texas. In 2011, Ms. Tsai received grant from City University of New York Diversity Grant for her piano solo piece “Precipitation.” In 2008, Ms. Tsai relocated to Houston, where she has been actively contributing her compositions, as well as performing as an improvisational artist.

Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Incarnation	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2012	00:08:00
Wanderings	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2012	00:04:15
Folic of Water (Perpetuum Mobile)	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2011	00:06:00
Improvisation #1	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2011	00:21:24
ZTZ Trio, Part I (collaboration with D. Zajicek and A. Zukoski)	Electronic Instruments and Sound Sources	2010	00:06:54	ZTZ Trio, Part I (collaboration with D. Zajicek and A. Zukoski)
ZTZ Trio, Part II (collaboration with D. Zajicek and A. Zukoski)	Electronic Instruments and Sound Sources	2010	00:09:02	ZTZ Trio, Part II (collaboration with D. Zajicek and A. Zukoski)
ZTZ Trio, Part III (collaboration with D. Zajicek and A. Zukoski)	Electronic Instruments and Sound Sources	2010	00:05:50	ZTZ Trio, Part III (collaboration with D. Zajicek and A. Zukoski)
Now	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2010	00:10:00
Precipitation	Keyboard	2010	00:10:00
Taiwanese Suite (Version for Violin and Piano)	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2009	00:14:00	Taiwanese Suite (Version for Violin and Piano)
Dominika for violin solo	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2009	00:13:00	Dominika for violin solo
Diu Diu Dang	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2007	00:03:15	Diu Diu Dang
Taiwanese Suite	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2007	00:13:00	Taiwanese Suite Taiwanese Suite Taiwanese Suite
Ocean	Unspecified Instrument(s)	2006	00:05:30
Blossoms at a Rainy Night	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2006	00:04:30	Blossoms at a Rainy Night
Mist, a cappella for SATB	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2004	00:07:20
Work Song, a cappella for SATB	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2004	00:02:35	Work Song, a cappella for SATB
My Cello and I	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2003	00:02:50
The Wind, Lavender, and Bicycle	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2003	00:02:45
Experiment	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2002	00:09:00
The Spirit of the Earth	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2002	00:05:20	The Spirit of the Earth The Spirit of the Earth
Existence -- Meditation -- Impermanence	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2002	00:07:10
Twin Soul	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2002	00:02:03
Scenes of Taipei	Keyboard	2001	00:18:00
The Poetry of A Painter	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2001	00:18:00	The Poetry of A Painter The Poetry of A Painter The Poetry of A Painter The Poetry of A Painter The Poetry of A Painter
Mountain Soul	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2001	00:09:18	Mountain Soul
Allatonceness	Electronic Instruments and Sound Sources	2001	00:05:20
Desire	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2000	00:06:40	Desire
Entrance-Exit	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2000	00:07:01	Entrance-Exit
Lament	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2000	00:07:02	Lament
Under the Starry Night	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2000	00:10:45
The Final Journey	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1998	00:10:00
Van Gogh	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1998	00:35:00	Van Gogh Van Gogh Van Gogh Van Gogh Van Gogh Van Gogh Van Gogh Van Gogh Van Gogh
The Sacrificial Ceremony of Cello	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1997	00:30:00	The Sacrificial Ceremony of Cello
M. Butterfly	Opera/Theater	1997	01:00:00

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