Mei-Fang Lin is a young Taiwanese-American composer, conductor, and pianist based in California.
Time Tracks (2001): A Video!
- A Rehearsal in the Czech Republic
- Click on "Mei-Fang Lin" and a video will pop up. Pretty cool.
Mei-Fang's Upcoming Projects
- Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, California
- A New Work for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Piano, and Double Bass (2006)
- Ellen Ruth Rose
- A New Work Viola and Electronics (2006)
- The Reizen Ensemble
- A New Work for Soprano, Alto Flute and Viola (2006)
- The Yarn/Wire Ensemble
- A New Work for Two Pianos, Two Percussions and Electronics (2006)
Interaction for Piano and Electronic Tape (2001)
Commissioned by the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
As an example of Mei-Fang's astonishing ability to get her music performed, here is a list of performances for one of her pieces, Interaction.
- Subtropics Music Festival, Nodus Ensemble, Miami Florida (2006)
- Merging Voices: Women in New Music Festival, Fullerton, CA (2006)
- SCI Region VI Conference, Houston, TX (2006)
- SCI Region V Conference, Indianapolis, IN (2005)
- Image II Electro-acoustic Music Festival, Memphis, TN (2005)
- Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Kansas City, MO (2005)
- Workshop: Computer Music and Audio Technology, Taipei, Taiwan (2005)
- Cycle de Concerts de Musique par Ordinateur, Armonia Opus Trio, Saint-Denis, France (2004)
- Sacramento New Music Festival, Sacramento, CA (2003)
- Empyrean Ensemble, Davis, CA (2003)
- Look & Listen Festival, New York, NY (2003)
- Le Festival Synthèse, Bourges, France (2002)
- Maxis Festival of Sound and Experimental Music, Sheffield Hallam University, England (2002)
- SEAMUS National Conference, Iowa City, IA (2002)
- University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (2002)
- Ball State University, Muncie, IN (2002)
- Contemporary Chamber Orchestra Taipei, Taiwan (2001)
- Sonic Circuits IX International Festival of Electronic Music, USA (2001)
- I-Chamber Concert, Phoenix, AZ (2001)
- The Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Seoul, Korea (2001)
- UC Berkeley Noon Concert, Berkeley, CA (2001)
- Bay Area Exchange Concert, Oakland, CA (2001)
Mei-Fang's Music on CD
- SEAMUS, Volume 12
- The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) is a non-profit national organization promoting electro-acoustic music.
Each year, a CD compiliation is released of what SEAMUS National Conference attendees vote as the 'best of show.' - The Experimental Music Studio at the University of Illinois
- The Experimental Studio released a CD of Electroacoustic Music entitled "Origins."
- The Pierre Schaeffer Competition in Pescarese, Italy
- Mei-Fang's work was chosen to be part of a CD released by the competition.
- INA/GRM
- As the winner of the "Prix Scrime" in 2000, Mei-Fang's music was featured on this CD, published in Bordeaux, France.
Mei-Fang the Piano Soloist
Mei-Fang is an active pianist: she has performed with...
- The National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
- Established in 1945, the Orchestra is the oldest in Taiwan.
- The UC Berkeley Summer Symphony Orchestra
- Mei-Fang played the Brahms First Piano Concerto in 2002.
Ever since, she has an established an excellent relationship with the orchestra as a conductor: she did the Beethoven Violin Concerto in 2003, and this Summer she'll be conducting the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra. - The Empyrean Ensemble
- The resident New Music Ensemble at UC Davis.
Fellowships and Grants
- George Ladd Prix de Paris from Berkeley (2003-05)
- "...the George Ladd Prix de Paris is awarded every other year to a composer in the Music Department's graduate program for two years of study abroad...awards are made on the basis of faculty nomination."
- The Beebe Fund (2002-03)
- "...The purpose of the Fund is to provide fellowships for gifted young musicians, generally performers and composers in classical disciplines, who wish to pursue advanced music study and performance abroad, usually in Europe."
- The Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship (2000-01)
- "The Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship promotes advanced study in the fine arts. Fellowships are to be used by the recipients toward defraying the expenses of advanced study in America or abroad."
Mei-Fang's Education
- Univeristy of California at UC Berkeley
- Mei-Fang is currently finishing up her PhD at Berkeley
- IRCAM Cursus
- She took part in IRCAM's Computer Music Course (2003-04)
- The Universisty of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
- Mei-Fang took a Master's in Composition (2000)
- National Taiwan University
- She took a Bachelor's in Composition and Music Theory (1997)
