Ching-Wen Chao, born in Taiwan in 1973, is currently appointed as assistant professor in the music department of the National Taiwan Normal University. She lectured at Stanford University in year 2002 and 2003. She received her DMA in composition at Stanford University, where she studied with Jonathan Harvey, Brian Ferneyhough and Chris Chafe. She was also committed to her research and composition of electronic music at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

Her most recent work for piano was premiered by Pi-Hsien Chen in Dresdner Tage Fuer zeitgenoessische Musik on OCT 2004. Recent awards include the first prize of the 2003 Fanfare composition competition held by the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan for its 16th anniversary, the fellowship recipient of the Chiang-Ching Kuo Founation Fellowship in Humanities for year 2001-02, the First Prize of the Young Composers Competition of the Asian Composers League, and the First Prize of the Music Taipei Composition Competition in Taipei. In recent years she has collaborated with world-renowned new-music ensembles such as the Arditti String Quartet, California EAR Unit, St. Lawrence String Quartet, VOXNOVA, EARPLAY, Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, as well as members of the Eighth Blackbird, of the CALARTS ensemble and of Ju Percussion Ensemble. Her works have been performed in various music festivals and electronic music centers in major cities of US, Taiwan, France, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Indonesia, Columbia, Korea and China.

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Email:chingwen@ntnu.edu.tw