Neo-Classic Dance’s The Drifting Fate of Hakka will be performed three days in a row at the National Theater, Taiwan from December 5^th to 7^th.

I am one of the composers of the show.

More information about the performance at:
http://goo.gl/wc7Jtr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCQYhNnI7HU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UyYj_jFjAg

I was ranked 2^nd place (Audiovisual and Music Category—Innovative Team) in the 2014 Cultural Creative Value-Adding Expert Competition held by the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan on October 23^rd.

Award Presentation Ceremony
Date/Time: October 23^rd, 2014, 1pm
Location: Huashan Culture Park, Taiwan

More information about the competition at:
http://imatch.moc.gov.tw/

I will serve on faculty of the Department of Music of the Soochow University as an Adjunct Assistant Professor from September 2014.

Open Courses:
Digital Music and Applied Pop Music (Pro Tools)

I wrote a program—a rearrangement of the combination of four classic opera arias for Solo Violin, Solo Trumpet, Solo Piano, and Orchestra—for the ceremony of the 25^th Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music Competition that will take place at the Zhongcheng Auditorium of the Zhongshan Hall in Taipei on August 9^th, 7pm.

More information about the ceremony at:
http://www.tofly.com.tw/gmaftaam/index.html

The incidental music that dance scholar I-Wen Chang commissioned me to write for her dance performance will take place in her talk of Choreographing Diversity and Identity: the New Generation of Contemporary Dance in Taiwan at the Neue Aula of the University of Tübingen, Germany on July 7^th, 6pm.

(Ort: Hörsaal 002, Wilhelmstraße 19, 72074 Tübingen)

More information about the event at:
http://goo.gl/EKylLQ

http://www.ercct.uni-tuebingen.de/spotlight.taiwan/?p=113

I will serve on faculty of the Department of Music of the National Sun Yat-sen University as an Adjunct Assistant Professor from February 2015.

Open Courses:
Special Topics on Music Composition / Orchestration

I will serve on faculty of the Department of Music of the National Taiwan Normal University as an Adjunct Assistant Professor from August 2014.

Open Courses:
Composition / Orchestration / Musical Analysis / Computer Music (Logic Pro) / Advanced Harmony

I will serve on faculty of the Music Department of the Fu Jen Catholic University as an Adjunct Assistant Professor from September 2014.

Open Courses:
Music Composition / Applied Music Composition / Orchestration / Computer Application and Basic Music Notation Software / The Fundamentals & Extensive Usages of Finale Computer Notation / Arrangement and Advanced Music Notation Software (Cubase) / Music Analysis

My entry for the 2^nd Annual CINE Film Scoring Competition for Emerging Composers was achieved the Top 30 with remarks from the three judges Mychael Danna (Life of Pi film composer), George S. Clinton (Chair of Berklee College of Music’s Film Scoring Department), and Daniel Carlin (Chair of Film Scoring at USC’s Thornton School of Music):

“Original and poetic, full of emotion and pathos, not tied to the film but illustrating it. I felt envious that I would never write something like this, which I guess is the ultimate compliment. Congrats whoever you are, you got it right! “

Here to watch the clip on Youtube:

I got my diploma of Ph.D. in Composition from the UCLA today and now officially hold the doctoral degree.