composer
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
2025: Selected composer for the Standard Issue Commission Award (London-based ensemble), composing a new duo work.
2025: Premiered orchestral piece Ting Yún (Listening to the Clouds) with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland at the National Concert Hall; live broadcast on RTÉ Lyric FM in Dublin (January 21, 2025).
2024: Selected for Composer Lab 2024, composing a new work for the National Symphony Orchestra, with workshops and a public performance at the National Concert Hall, broadcast live on RTÉ Lyric FM.
2024: Commissioned by Paul Roe for the clarinet ensemble piece Winds In The Wilderness as part of ClarinetFest 2024, premiered on May 9 at TU Dublin Conservatoire and performed again on July 31 during the ClarinetFest 2024 opening concert in Dublin.
2024: Commissioned by Katherine Breeden for a series of works for double clarinet titled Spring Blossom on Both Banks, premiered at ClarinetFest 2024 and also performed at the European Clarinet Congress 2024 in Salerno, Italy (November 4, 2024).
2024: Commissioned by Linda O'Shea Farren for the work Thy Holy One for tenor and viola, part of the “Messiah Revisited” project, premiered at the Goethe Institut Ireland on April 13, 2024.
2023: Commissioned by Crash Ensemble for a solo piano piece Nocturne, premiered by the composer at the Hugh Lane Gallery (July 2, 2023).
2023: Finalist in the Finding a Voice competition; composed When the Wind Passes By for solo viola.
2022: Who Would Have the Courage to Carry Such a Heavy Past with Us? (from chamber opera Tattoo) awarded 2nd prize (highest points) in the Franz Schubert Conservatory World Championship Composition Competition (first prize vacant).
2022: Illusions for solo organ awarded 3rd prize in the Franz Schubert Conservatory World Championship Composition Competition, Category 1.
2022: Senses I for strings awarded 2nd prize in Academia Musica: European Composer Competition, Category 3 (first prize vacant).
2022: Locust Swarms (from chamber opera Tattoo) for choir selected as a finalist in Academia Musica: European Composer Competition.
2022: Commissioned by Crash Ensemble for Crash Works – full ensemble work.
2021: Commissioned by Crash Ensemble for Crash Works – Reactions Postcard Project.
2021: Who Would Have the Courage to Carry Such a Heavy Past with Us? awarded 3rd prize in the Women Composers Competition, performed at Femfestival 2021, premired by Unconventional Orchestra in Florence.
2019–2022: Recipient of the Chinese Government Scholarship – Fine Arts.
2018–2022: Awarded the TU Dublin Fiosraigh Fees and Materials Expenses award.
2018: Winner of the Gertrude Morris Grant Perpetual Cup for a duo (piano and voice).
2016: Tibetan Ceremony (Chinese orchestral piece) selected and performed by the Central Conservatory of Music National Orchestra in Beijing.
2016: Selected as a composer for collaboration with dance performers and directors, composed a chamber piece Zhen Tou, performed and recorded in Music and Dance Collection – Season 4 by Central Conservatory of Music and Beijing Dance Academy.
2015: Winner of the 3rd China Chamber Opera Composition Promoting Project Prize for the chamber opera Tonight, I’ll Be Free, performed and recorded in Beijing and published on DVD.