Pan Hwang-long

In 1967, he began his musical studies at National Taiwan Normal University and graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor Degree of the Arts.

In 1974, he entered the Musikhochschule und Musikakademie in Zuerich, studying composition with Hans Ulrich Lehmann and theory and counterpoint with Robert Blum. He graduated in 1976.

From 1976 to 1978, he studied composition with Helmut Lachenmann at the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater in Hannover. In 1978, he participated in the Darmstaedter Ferienkursen fuer Neue Musik.

From 1978 to 1980, he continued his studies in composition with Isang Yun at the Hochschule der Kuenste Berlin.

In 1982, he assumed the position of associate professor at the National Institute of the Arts in Taipei, Taiwan. In 1987, he was named as a member of the Music Committee,'Council for Cultural Planning and Development'; in the same year he was elected Chairman of the Music Committee of the Sino-German Cultural & Economic Association. In 1989, he was co-founder and elected President of the International Society for Contemporary Music, Taiwan Section. In 1990, he was appointed as one of the Jury Memebers in the Advisory Committee of the National Theater & Concert Hall in Taipei. He has been a professor of composition at the National Institute of the Arts since 1991 and director of its Research and Development center since 1998.

In 1991, he was promoted as professor of composition at the National Institute of the Arts. Starting from the same year, he was serving as delegate from Taiwan at the UNESCO to attend the International Rostrum of Composers and to introduce works by Taiwan composers.