Chia Yin Wu is a Taiwanese-Canadian composer whose musical journey began in the sanctuary of a rural Presbyterian church in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where she was immersed in the Protestant tradition of congregational and choral singing and attempted her earliest musical compositions. She studied voice and piano at the Taiwan National Academy of Arts under Jin Man Lin and Mewas Lin, composition at McGill University where her chief mentors were Brian Cherney, Jean Lesage and Christoph Neidhöfer, and theology at Knox College, University of Toronto.
She is the winner of the BMO Merit Award by Boston Metro Opera, 2014, and a winner of La Société de Concerts de Montréal's Composition Competition, 2017. Her music is performed in Canada, Taiwan and Malaysia.
Chia Yin Wu, Composer
Biography
Chia Yin Wu is a Taiwanese-Canadian composer whose musical journey began in the sanctuary of a rural Presbyterian church in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where she was immersed in the Protestant tradition of congregational and choral singing and attempted her earliest musical compositions. She studied voice and piano at the Taiwan National Academy of Arts under Jin Man Lin and Mewas Lin, composition at McGill University where her chief mentors were Brian Cherney, Jean Lesage and Christoph Neidhöfer, and theology at Knox College, University of Toronto.
She is the winner of the BMO Merit Award by Boston Metro Opera, 2014, and a winner of La Société de Concerts de Montréal's Composition Competition, 2017. Her music is performed in Canada, Taiwan and Malaysia.