Dr CHEN Yeung-ping
Associate Professor of Music, South China Normal University
Awardee of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship Scheme 2011-12

Yeung-ping Chen is a Hong Kong-born composer who has received degrees from Hong Kong Baptist University, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). The recipient of the Asian Cultural Council’s Altius Fellowship, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund, and CASH’s Music Scholarship, Chen was named a finalist for the Rivers Awards Competition in Shanghai and has received commissions from Steven Schick and La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, Bard College, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, L'Ensemble Télémaque, and many others.

Chen was also a composer-fellow for the Ensemble 2010 Project at Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (IMD), the International Ensemble Modern Academy in 2011, June in Buffalo 2012, Shanghai New Music Week in 2008 and 2019, the Asian Composers League (ACL) in 2018, and worked with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Groove Wind Quintet, Tactus Ensemble, Ding Yi Music Company, and the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. In 2022, he launched an initiative called "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Composers and Compositional Research Network (GHKM-CCRNet)," a multi-dimensional platform that aims to curate professional connections among composers and researchers in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao and to explore, investigate, cultivate, and promote the region's original sounds.

Chen is currently an Associate Professor of Music at the School of Music at the South China Normal University (SCNU), where he curated various research projects, including a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary exchange project called “Ink Art and New Music” supported by HKU MUSE, M+, and Bard’s US-China Music Institute. Chen has also been a Council Member of the Hong Kong Composers' Guild since 2022 and served Macao Polytechnic University as Music Programme Coordinator and Guest Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Design in the summer of 2023.