Valente Lecture with Composer Yu-Hui Chang

Award-winning composer Yu-Hui Chang has written a wide range of music. Her work compels and resonates with professional musicians and audiences alike.

She has performed her music across continents in the Netherlands, Italy, UK, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and throughout the U.S. to critical acclaim. Among the commissions she has received are those from Fromm, Barlow, Koussevitzky, Naumburg, Meet the Composer (New Music USA), BMOP, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Earplay, Volti, Boston Musica Viva, Triple Helix, Monadnock Music Festival, Arts Council Korea, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, and National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center of Taiwan. She is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize, and Aaron Copland Award. She also received the Charles Ives Fellowship (2009) and the Arts and Letters Award (2017) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Yu-Hui Chang is a former UC Davis Department of Music faculty member. Chang is now the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Music at Brandeis University.