Yu-Hui Chang,
2009 recipient of Charles Ives Fellowship
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Harmony Ives, the widow of Charles Ives, bequeathed to the Academy the royalties of Charles Ives' music, which has enabled the Academy to give the Ives awards in music since 1970.
Two Charles Ives Fellowships, of $15,000 each, will be awarded to Yu-Hui Chang and Ray Lustig.

Yu-Hui Chang is a composition faculty member at Brandeis University. She has been recognized through awards and grants from the Aaron Copland Award, Fromm Music Foundation Commission, Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commission, Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize, American Composers Forum, Meet the Composers, ASCAP, and the Council for Cultural Affairs of the Executive Yuan (Taiwanese government agency), among others. Performances of her music have taken place in the Netherlands, Italy, UK, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and throughout the U.S., by the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Kalistos Chamber Orchestra, Nieuw Ensemble, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Earplay, Dinosaur Annex, Alea III, Triple Helix Piano Trio, Lydian String Quartet, Alexander String Quartet, and Ju Percussion Group. Between 1999- 2006, Ms. Chang taught at the University of California-Davis and co-directed the Empyrean Ensemble.