Pan Shiji
Pan Shiji or Chew Shyh-Ji is a Taiwanese composer, writer and music educator.Biography
Pan Shiji was born in Taibei, and her family emigrated to Canada in 1974. She took piano lessons and studied composition with Hsu Tsang-houei in Taiwan. In America she studied composition with Robert Turner at the University of Manitoba from 1976–80 and with Chou Wen-chung at Columbia University, New York, from 1980–88. During this time, she worked at the Columbia Center for Ethnomusicology. 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 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:
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 , 1990
- Configuration – Transformation – Shape
- Shapes, 1996
- Si, 1997
- String Quartet no.4, 1998
Writings
- "Wei'erdi de geju yu guojia yishi" , Lishi yuekan, xiii/2
- "Genji monogatari de yinyue shenghuo: shitan yazhou yinyue wenhua jiaoliu" , Yishu pinglun, no.10
- "Anuo Xunbaike xunzhao shi'eryin zuopin hesheng ji qushi de tongyixing" , Yishu pinglun, no.10;, no.10
- "Ershi shiji yinyue xin shengsi" Biaoyan yishu zazhi, no.9
