Shih-Hui Chen is an American composer born and raised in Taiwan, and has served as an assistant professor of composition at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University in Houston, TX. Albany's Shih-Hui Chen: 66 Times is the first recording of Chen's music, though she has been active in the United States since at least 1992, and some of her pieces are performed quite a bit already, particularly Plum Blossoms, not represented here, and Twice Removed. Shih-Hui Chen is smart in that she makes her pieces flexible enough in ...
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Shih-Hui Chen is an American composer born and raised in Taiwan, and has served as an assistant professor of composition at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University in Houston, TX. Albany's Shih-Hui Chen: 66 Times is the first recording of Chen's music, though she has been active in the United States since at least 1992, and some of her pieces are performed quite a bit already, particularly Plum Blossoms, not represented here, and Twice Removed. Shih-Hui Chen is smart in that she makes her pieces flexible enough in instrumentation so they can be applied to different ensembles and performers; Twice Removed, performed on solo clarinet here by Min-Ho Yeh, also exists in a version for solo saxophone. Chen's Four Little Pieces of Wood (again, not represented here) is scored for solo piano, or solo guitar. Chen is so often performed that one wonders why her music hasn't been released on recordings before, but as the way things go in the "stretch-a-dollar-till-it-hollers" realm of classical recording,...
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