Jen-Kuang Chang, a native of Taiwan, is working on the acoustic, electro-acoustic, and audiovisual composition as expressive agents.

Mr. Chang ‘s chamber ensemble work, “Chakra”, was named the Second Prize winner of the JIMS “Stadtpfeifer” International Composition Contest for Improvised Chamber Music in Salzburg and was premiered by the Vienna-based Janus Ensemble under the direction of Christoph Cech. The score of “Chakra” has been selected for inclusion in the SCI Journal of Music Scores, published by EAM, the European American Music Distributors Corporation.

Mr. Chang’s works have been selected for inclusion in the International Computer Music Conference, SEAMUS National Conference, SCI National Conference, SCI Regional Conference, SCI Student National Conference, CMS National Conference, CMS Regional Conference, NACUSA National Conference, Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Summer Studies for Jazz & Improvised Music Salzburg, Sonoimágenes International Acousmatic and Multimedia Festival and IV Jornadas Argentinas de Música Contemporánea in Argentina, Visionaria International Toscana Videofestival, Festival Internazionale di Musica Elettroacustica del Conservatorio S.Cecilia, ASTAS ROMAS 404 International Electronic Art Festival, Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media and Time Based Art in Italy, CYNETart Festival, Backup Festival, B-Seite Verein für Visuelle Kunst und Jetztkultur, transNATURALE Festival of Sound and Light in Germany, ElectroMediaWorks Festival and Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival in Greece, Signal and Noise Festival, NAISA SOUNDplay Festival, and UPART Contemporary Art Fair in Canada, Canariasmediafest Gran Canaria International Festival of Arts and Digital Cultures, International Forum Art Tech Media Códoba, and Zeppelin Sound Art Festival in Spain, FONLAD Digital Arts Festival in Portugal, Expo Brighton and Sound:Space Sound Art Symposium in UK, International Les Instants Vidéo Festival and Festival des musiques d’aujourd’hui Un son par là, Carré d’Art in France, FIAD Festival Internacional de Arte Digital in El Salvador, Australasian Computer Music Conference in Australia and other events.

Curriculum Vitae

• Education

Doctoral of Musical Arts, doctoral candidate, December 2009 graduation anticipated
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Music Composition
Composition studies with Randall Snyder and Tyler White and music theory studies with Gretchen Foley
Composition master classes with Michael Daugherty, Eugene O’Brien, Bruce Broughton, and John Musto

Ph.D. Music Theory-Composition program, January-May 2006
Kent State University, the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music, Kent, Ohio
Composition studies with Thomas Janson and music theorystudies with Ralph Lorenz and Richard Devore

Master of Music, 2005
Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
Master’s Thesis: “Charlie Parker: the Analytical Study of Twenty-two Performance Versions of Now’s the Time”
Composition and music theory studies with Andrew Houchins, music education studies with Marie Miller, music history studies with Allan Comstock

Bachelor of Music, 2000
Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
Saxophone performance studies with George Garzone, Dino Govoni, Fred Lipsius, and Jeff Harrington

• Selected Awards And Fellowships

Recipient, ASCAPLUS Award 2009, concert music division, with Judith Clurman, Steve Smith, and H. Robert Reynolds as award panelists, New York, New York, 2009.

Artist-in-Resident Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts Residency Award, Austerlitz, New York, 2009.

Juror’s Choice Award, RVCC International Juried Video Show, North Branch, New Jersey, 2009.

Recipient, Hixson-Lied Presentation of Creative and Scholarly Work Grant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2009.

CYNETart Anerkennung 2008, Internationales Festival für Computergestützte Kunst Dresden, signed by Helma Orosz, Oberbürgermeisterin der Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Major of the City of Dresden, and Ghislaine Boddington, Jurymitglied, Member of Jury, Dresden, Germany, 2008.

Second-Prize Winner, Golden Key International Honour Society, Visual and Performing Arts Achievement Awards, Mixed Media Category, Atlanta, Georgia, 2008.

Artist-in-Resident Fellowship, Music Omi International Musicians Residency Award, Ghent, New York, 2008.

Artist-in-Resident Fellowship, I-Park Artists’ Enclave Residency Award, East Haddam, Connecticut, 2008.

Artist-in-Resident Fellowship, Kimmel Harding Nelson Residency Award, Nebraska City, Nebraska, 2008.

Winner, 17th Visionaria International Toscana Videofestival, Ten Best Works in Vision Art/Visual Arts in Movement Category, Piombino, Italy, 2008.

Doctoral Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Music, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2008.

Second-Prize Winner, JIMS International Composition Contest for Improvised Chamber Music, Salzburg, Austria, 2007.

Winner, CLIC Foundation Digital Art International Contest, International Audiovisual Division, El Salvador, 2007.

First-Prize Winner, 5th edition of the Yorgos Foudoulis International Composition Competition, Orchestral Ensemble Category, International Art Society, Volos, Greece, 2007.

Second-Prize Winner, 5th edition of the Yorgos Foudoulis International Composition Competition, Music Technology Category, International Art Society, Volos, Greece, 2007.

Winner, Diverse Practice Composition Competition Award, United States, 2007.

Winner, Ida M. Vreeland Award in Music, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2007.

Nominee, Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools 2007 Distinguished Thesis Award Competition, 2007.

Winner, Laurence C. Boylan Thesis Award, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, 2006.

Winner, Harold Durst Graduate Research Award, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, 2004.

• Scholarly Publications and Museum Permanent Displays

“Chakra,” SCI Journal of Music Score, edited by Bruce Taub and published by EAM European American Music Distributors, vol. 42, Spring 2009.

Flush, CAM Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, permanent display as a part of Sguardi Sonori 2009, acquired by Artistic Director Antonio Manfredi, International Contemporary Art Center Association, Casoria, Napoli, Italy, February 19, 2009.

“Ross Lee Finney: Piano Trio No. 2 for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello,” An Introduction, Analysis, and Performance Evaluation of Selected Piano Trio Literature of the Twentieth Century, co-authored with James Starr and Elaine Edwards , Edwin Mellon Press, 2003.

• Presentations And Workshop

An Evening of Music & Visual with Composer Jen-Kuang Chang, I-Park Artists’ Enclave Residency Open Studio, I-Park Common Hall, East Haddam, Connecticut, July 17, 2008.

Charlie Parker: The Analytical Study of Twenty-two Performance Versions of Now’s the Time, The Celebration of Graduate Student Work, Presenter, Van Brunt Visitors Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 2, 2007.

New Software For Teaching Music Fundamentals, Ear Training, and Music Theory in Junior High and High School, Great Plains Music Education Workshop 2005, Workshop Clinician, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, June 23, 2005.

Hendricks Music Computer Lab and Music Technology, Emporia State University Freshman Music Seminar 2004, Guest Lecturer, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, October 21, 2004.

Hendricks Music Computer Lab and Music Technology, Emporia State University Freshman Music Seminar 2003, Guest Lecturer, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, October 23, 2003.

Miles Ahead: Charlie Parker Database, maintained by Peter Losin, contributor, 2003-2004.

• Music Software Programs

MU124 Basic Music Soprano Recorder Companion, for MU124 Basic Music, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas

MU101 Note Naming, for MU101 Music Fundamental, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas

eFlashCARD: Notation Symbols, eFlashCARD: Note Naming, eFlashCARD: Pitch Letter, a collection of software programs for Great Plains Music Education Workshop 2005, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas

• Teaching Experience

Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska

Adjunct Instructor, MU401, Composition, Fall 2009. The course concentrates on studies and discussions of contemporary music composition techniques and approaches in both group and individual instructing platform. Topics include discussions of composition techniques, composition exercises, and improvisation exercises based upon elements of twentieth century music techniques, major stylistic approaches of the twentieth century music composition such as Expressionism, Avant garde, electronic music, Post-Modernism, Experimentalism, New Complexity, New Tonality, Polystylicity, Gesture, Spatialization, Microtonality, and Minimalism.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska

Instructor, MUSC398, Special Topic Seminar: Electroacoustic Music Composition, Spring 2009. Topics include historical development of electroacoustic music, sampling and wave editing, introduction of MAX/MSP and other interactive software program, compositional approaches associated with electronic elements.

Instructor, MUSC265A, Musicianship Laboratory III, Spring 2009. Topics include singing and notation of diatonic and chromatic melodic lines, chord progression with secondary dominants; sing and dictation of melodies, rhythmic passages, and harmonic progressions.

Aural Skill Auditor, MUSC266A, Musicianship Laboratory IV, Spring 2009. Topics include sight-singing, reading and performance skill, keyboard skills.

Instructor, MUSC165A, Musicianship Laboratory I, Fall 2008. Topics include singing and notation of intervals; chord qualities, chord inversions; sing and dictation of melodies, rhythmic passages, and harmonic progressions.

Aural Skill Auditor, MUSC265A, Musicianship Laboratory III, Fall 2008. Topics include sight-singing, reading and performance skill, keyboard skills.

Instructor, MUSC265A, Musicianship Laboratory III, Spring 2008. Topics include singing and notation of diatonic and chromatic melodic lines, chord progression with secondary dominants; sing and dictation of melodies, rhythmic passages, and harmonic progressions.

Aural Skill Auditor, MUSC266A, Musicianship Laboratory IV, Spring 2008. Topics include sight-singing, reading and performance skill, keyboard skills.

Aural Skill Auditor, MUSC265A, Musicianship Laboratory III, Fall 2007. Topics include sight-singing, reading and performance skill, keyboard skills.

Grader, MUSC265, Musicianship III, Fall 2007.

Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas

Instructor, MU124, Basic Music, Spring 2003-Spring 2005. Topics include music fundamentals; singing and notation intervals, scales; chord qualities, chord inversions; reading and performance skill of melodies and rhythmic passage; basic soprano recorder performance; soprano recorder concert.

Music Laboratory Assistant, Hendricks Music Computer Laboratory, Spring 2003-Spring 2005.

Whole-Note Music Center and Academy, Taipei, Taiwan

Instrumental Instructor , 1994-1996. Duties include providing saxophone and guitar instructions, improvisation skill, and basic musicianship in three locations.