CHIEN, Sansan Yu

Sansan Chien was a Taiwanese-American composer and music educator, born in 1967 in Changhua, Taiwan. After moving to the United States, she studied piano at the University of Toledo, composition at Ohio University, and earned a Doctor of Music in composition from Indiana University in 1997. She later taught music theory and composition at the National Kaohsiung Normal University in Taiwan.
Her music includes orchestral, chamber, choral, and solo instrumental works. Selected compositions include Into the Water Curtain (1997), Forbidden Decision (1992), Bagatelles for Winds (2005), Postlude – Thoughts after June (2007), Homage to Nature, Threnody to the Victims of Morakot (2009), and the clarinet series Dolly’s Family.