Pan Shiji or Chew Shyh-Ji (born 29 July 1957) is a Taiwan

Taiwan

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ese composer, writer and music educator.

Biography

Pan Shiji was born in Taibei, and her family emigrated to Canada

Canada

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 in 1974. She took piano lessons and studied composition with Hsu Tsang-houei in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

. In America she studied composition with Robert Turner

Robert Turner

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 at the University of Manitoba

University of Manitoba

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 from 1976–80 and with Chou Wen-chung

Chou Wen-chung

Chou Wen-chung , Shandong, China) is a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music. He emigrated in 1946 to the United States where he lives.-Life:...

 at Columbia University

Columbia University

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, New York

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, from 1980–88, and worked at the Columbia Center for Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology

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. In 1988 she returned to Taiwan and took a position as professor of composition at the National Academy of the Arts. Her manuscripts are housed in the in Liu Collection, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg.

Works

Selected works include:

Orchestra:

• Dream World, 1979
• Music for Orchestra, 1980
• 3 Pieces, 1982
• Raining Night, 1997–9

Vocal:

• The Lodge Amid the Bamboos, 1980
• Paiju sanshou [3 Haiku], 1991
• 3 Songs (Pan), 1996
• In the Dark (Pan), 1998
• Qiu Lu, 1998

Chamber and solo instrument:

• Music for Hn and Pianoforte, 1979
• Music for Pianoforte, 1979
• Wind Quintet, 1979
• Brass Quintet, 1980
• String Quartet in 1 Movement, 1980
• Ensemble, 1981
• Hudson River Caprice, 1981
• String Quartet, 1981
• Piece, 1984
• String Quartet no.1, 1985
• String Quartet no.2, 1986
• String Quartet no.3, 1988
• Dubai de nigu [The Soliloquy of Pandora], 1990
• Configuration – Transformation – Shape
• Shapes, 1996
• Si, 1997
• String Quartet no.4, 1998

Writings

• "Wei'erdi de geju yu guojia yishi" [Nationalism in Verdi's operas], Lishi yuekan, xiii/2 (1989)
• "Genji monogatari de yinyue shenghuo: shitan yazhou yinyue wenhua jiaoliu" [Musical life in the Tale of Genji: a study in Asian musical exchange], Yishu pinglun (1990), no.10
• "Anuo Xunbaike xunzhao shi'eryin zuopin hesheng ji qushi de tongyixing" [Schoenberg in search of harmonic and formal unity], Yishu pinglun (1993), no.10; (1995), no.10
• "Ershi shiji yinyue xin shengsi" [New ideas on 20th-century music] Biaoyan yishu zazhi (1994), no.9