Chao Ching-Wen

Ching-Wen Chao, born in Taiwan in 1973, is currently pursuing a DMA degree in composition in the music department at Stanford University, where she has studied with Jonathan Harvey, Chris Chafe and Jean-Claude Risset. She also studies at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). She received her B.A. in composition at the National Taiwan Normal University in 1995, where she studied with Mao-shuan Chen and Chin-Yo Lin.

In 1994, she attended Internationale Ferienkurse fuer Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany. In 1999, her "String Quartet No. 2" won the first prize of the Young Composer Competition in the annual ACL (Asian Composer League) conference, and the first prize in Music Taipei 1999, the most prestigious composition competition in Taiwan. It was recently performed by St. Lawrence Quartet in July 2000. Her "Duet for clarinets" was performed in the Music 99 new music festival in Cincinnati in June and "Soundstates" (for percussion and tape) at the ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) in Octobor. She also participated in Stockhausen-Kurse Kuerten 1999 in July. She has won several national prizes for composition and piano performance.