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SHIH HUI CHEN RECEIVES GODDARD LIEBERSON FELLOWSHIP

The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the fifteen recipients of this year's awards in music, which total $165,000. The winners were selected by a committee of Academy members: Robert Beaser (chairman), Martin Bresnick, John Corigliano, Shulamit Ran, Steve Reich, Gunther Schuler, and Yehudi Wyner. The awards will be presented at the Academy's annual Ceremonial in May. Candidates for music awards are nominated by the 250 members of the Academy

Two Goddard Lieberson fellowships of $15,000, endowed in 1978 by the CBS Foundation, are given to mid-career composers of exceptional gifts. This year they will go to Shih-Hui Chen and Seung-Ah Oh.

Shih-Hui Chen (Lieberson Fellowship) is a recipient of a Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commission, a Barlow Endowment
Shih-Hui Chen
Commission, a Guggenheim fellowship, and an American Academy in Rome Prize. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, she came to the United States in 1982 and earned her master's degree from Northern Illinois University and her doctoral degree from Boston University. She has been awarded grants from the Fromm Foundation, the NEA, Meet the Composer Foundation, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Harvard University, and the Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation. Her pieces have been performed by members of Seattle Symphony Orchestra; the Boston Modern Orchestra Project; the Fischer Duo, and the Freon Ensemble in Rome, Italy. Shih-Hui Chen is currently an assistant professor of music composition at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, and has been composer-in-residence at Boston University's Tanglewood Institute. She is a music adviser for Formosa Chamber Music Society, an active member of Musiqa, and the Asian Composers' League.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters was founded in 1898 to "foster, assist, and sustain an interest in literature, music, and the fine arts." Each year, the Academy honors over 50 composers, artists, architects, and writers with cash awards ranging from $2,500 to $75,000. Other activities of the Academy are exhibitions of art, architecture, and manuscripts; publications on the Academy's history and events; publications on the Academy's history and readings and performances of new musicals. The Academy is located in two landmark buildings, designed by McKim, Mead & White and by Cass Gilbert, on Audubon Terrace at 155th Street and Broadway.
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