Chen Yi

This composer has multiple commissions - click here to view all.

Title: The West Lake in Summer
Commission: 2023
Completed: 2025
Instrumentation: Violin, clarinet, percussion
Premiere Location: Kansas City, MO
Premiere Ensemble: F-Plus Ensemble

Title: Fiddle Suite
Commission: 1994
Completed: 1997
Instrumentation: huqin and string quartet
Premiere Location: Nelson Music Room, Duke University, NC
Premiere Ensemble: Ciompi Quartet

As a prolific composer who blends East and West traditions, transcending cultural and musical boundaries, Chinese American composer Dr. Chen Yi* is a Distinguished Endowed Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, and the recipient of the Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her music is published by Theodore Presser, performed, and recorded worldwide. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letter, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she holds BA and MA from Beijing Central Conservatory of Music, and DMA from Columbia University in the City of New York. Major composition teachers were Professors Wu Zu-qiang, Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky.

*Chen is family name. Yi is personal name. Chen Yi can be referred to Dr. Chen, Prof. Chen, Ms. Chen, or Chen Yi.