CHEN, Chin-Chin

Chin-Chin Chen is a Taiwanese-American composer and music educator born in 1964. She earned two master’s degrees in piano performance and music theory, as well as a D.M.A. in composition/theory, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She later taught composition, electroacoustics, music theory, and music technology at Grand Valley State University.
Her music includes acoustic, chamber, vocal, and electroacoustic works. Notable compositions include Points of No Return, Points of Arrival for violin and electronics, Points of Departure for vibraphone and tape, So Lonely Blooming, Snow of Ages, and Like a Chinese Waterfall. Points of No Return received First Prize at the Concorso Internazionale Luigi Russolo.