After months of research and composing, Yu-Hui finished a new work titled “Accidental Hero”, a mini music drama based on the extraordinary story of Mary Jayne Gold (1909-1997). An heiress from Evanston, Illinois, Mary Jayne Gold was an independent-minded woman flying her own airplane around Europe who ended up involved in Varian Fry’s “Emergency Rescue […]
Yu-Hui was a guest composer at Etchings Festival 2025 between August 3-9, which took place at the Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity in Northampton, Massachusetts. Also in the festival were guest composers Melinda Wagner, Kate Soper, David Sanford, and Maxwell Dulaney, along with guest musicians Dan Lippel (guitar) and Philipp Staüdlin (saxophones). Since 2009, […]
Yu-Hui is awarded a Fromm 2024 Commission prize to compose a new work for Fredaissance, a trio based in SUNY Fredonia: Barry Crawford (flutes), Laura Koepke (bassoon) and I-Fei Chen-Markham (piano). This is Yu-Hui’s second Fromm commission. She received her first Fromm commission in 2008, for which she composed “Pixelandia” for the Boston Modern Orchestra […]
Yu-Hui’s latest orchestral piece “Hawking Radiation” will be premiered by Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) on May 25 at Jordan Hall in Boston. Also on the program are pieces by Leonard Bernstein, Harold Shapero, and Henri Lazarof. Conceived when the first black hole image was released in 2019, and completed during the time when the […]
Yu-Hui’s new “Mind Like Water” album is set to be officially released on January 19, 2024, under the New Focus Recordings label. This album showcases four chamber/solo works that focus on the dialogues between a composer and her work, between different musical ideas, and between a soloist and her instrument. The recording features performances by […]
Volti, a professional vocal ensemble based in San Francisco, revisited Yu-Hui’s “Being: Two Collins Songs” in a series of concerts between 11/3 – 11/5, 2023, in the Bay Area as part of the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music. Commissioned and premiered by Volti in 2010, “Being: Two Collins Songs” is an a cappella […]
Eminent clarinetist Charles Neidich is performing Yu-Hui’s “Three Fantasias” at the Eslite Performance Hall in Taipei on November 13, 2022, as part of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra’s chamber music concert series. Also on the program is his own composition “Firefly”, plus chamber pieces by Prokofiev and Brahms (with members of Taipei Symphony Orchestra). This concert […]
“Germinate” received its west coast premiere in October 2022 at the beautiful Ann E. Pitzer Center, UC Davis. The Empyrean Ensemble, directed by composer Sam Nichols, gave a superb performance under the baton of conductor Matilda Hofman. Yu-Hui was also invited to give a talk in UCD’s Valente Lecture series.