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Chia Yin Wu is a Taiwanese-Canadian composer whose musical journey began in the sanctuary of a rural Presbyterian church in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where she was immersed in the Protestant tradition of congregational and choral singing and attempted her earliest musical compositions. She studied voice and piano at the Taiwan National Academy of Arts under Jin Man Lin and Mewas Lin, composition at McGill University where her chief mentors were Brian Cherney, Jean Lesage and Christoph Neidhöfer, and theology at Knox College, University of Toronto.

She is the winner of the BMO Merit Award by Boston Metro Opera, 2014, and a winner of La Société de Concerts de Montréal's Composition Competition, 2017. Her music is performed in Canada, Taiwan and Malaysia.

吳佳音,加拿大台灣作曲家。她的音樂之路始於台灣高雄鄉間的教會,在長老教會的會眾與合唱傳統下受薰陶,並開始嘗試音樂創作。畢業於國立藝專,師事林金滿與林惠珍,修習鋼琴與聲樂。後赴加拿大麥基爾大學攻讀作曲,師事Brian Cherney,Jean Lesage 與Christoph Neidhöffer, 並於多倫多大學諾克斯學院研讀神學。

 

2014年 Boston Metro Opera 作曲獎得主。2017年 La Société de Concerts de Montréal 作曲獎得主。音樂作品曾於加拿大,台灣與馬來西亞演出。

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