Born (1981) in Taiwan and raised in Virginia, Yvonne received a B.A. in Music from Yale University. Her works have been performed in the US, Canada, Taiwan, and Germany and have been premiered by The Timothy Dwight Chamber Players, ARRAYMUSIC, and Ensemble SurPlus. She was a prize winner in the 2004 Formosa Composition Competition and was awarded the Abraham Beekman Cox Prize as an outstanding composer in her class at Yale. Her string quartet Utterance was recently released on Carrier Records. Primary composition teachers have included Kathryn Alexander, John Halle, Sophia Serghi, and Steven Takasugi. She is currently a graduate student in music composition at the University of California, San Diego.

Selected Compositions

To unnamed things (2009) (9'18") listen
To unmeasured phenomena, to undiscovered species, to unknown places: may you remain nameless.

Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano
Scott Worthington, double bass
Bonnie Whiting Smith, percussion
Performed at UC San Diego, Conrad Prebys Music Center
January 22, 2010

Utterance (2006-07) (14'43") listen
*Just released on Carrier Records. Available for download or purchase.*

Ensemble SurPlus:
Stefan Häussler, violin
Thomas Avery, violin
Bodo Friedrich, viola
Beverley Ellis, cello
James Avery, conductor

Performed at Schloss Solitude, Summer Academy, near Stuttgart, Germany
Utterance was inspired by the poem of the same title by W.S. Merwin.

Agua Remota (2008) (10'13") listen

Jeremy Eig, clarinet
Yumi Oshima, viola
Andrew Roitstein, double bass
Mark Seto, conductor

The title was taken from a line in "I speak of the city" by Octavio Paz.

"hablo de nubes nómadas y de una música delgada que ilumina una habitación en un quinto piso y de un rumor de risas en mitad de la noche como agua remota que fluye entre raíces y yerbas,"

("I speak of nomadic clouds, and of a thin music that lights a room on the fifth floor, and a murmur of laughter in the middle of the night like water that flows far-off through roots and grasses,")

Piano lessons with Yvonne Wu