ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.icmc2010.org/style-01.css"> <meta name="description" content="Official Website of the 2010 International Computer Music Conference ICMC2010 RED Edition."> <meta name="keywords" content="ICMC, ICMA, International Computer Music Conference, Computer Music, Installation, Papers, Conference, Music, Computer, International"> <meta name="author" content="Phillip Stearns"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body class="content"> <div class="border-solid"> <div class="border-dotted"> <p style="font-weight:bold;font-size:1.25em;"> Shiau-uen Ding </p> <img src="http://www.icmc2010.org/bios/images/ShiauuenDing.jpg" class="bio-image" height=300px> <p> A native of Taiwan, pianist Shiau-uen Ding is a rising presence on the new and electro-acoustic music scenes, and an original and energetic performer of traditional solo and chamber repertoire. She studied piano with Eugene Pridonoff, Elizabeth Pridonoff, and Lina Yeh, computer music with Mara Helmuth and Christopher Bailey, and contemporary improvisation with Alan Bern at National Taiwan Normal University and University of Cincinnati, where she received her doctoral degree. </p> <p> She has performed in France, Germany, Belgium, China, and throughout the US and Taiwan. Her virtuosic and sensitive interpretations have won standing ovations, and she was called  daredevil by New York Times for her performance at Bang on a Can Marathon and  a powerful force on the new music scene by Array for her performance at Spark Festival in Minneapolis. She has collaborated with internationally renowned performers and composers, including Steve Reich, Michael Kugel, George Tsontakis, who refers to her performance of his Ghost Variations as a  monster performance, and Moritz Eggert, who dedicated his Hämmerklavier XIX: Hymnen der Welt (Afghanistan bis Zimbabwe) to her. In addition, new compositions have been written for her by Mara Helmuth, Christopher Bailey, Eric Lyon, Burton Beerman, and Naxos artist Gao Ping. She has recorded for Capstone, Centaur, Innova and Electric Music Collective. </p> <p> http://shiauuending.com </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.icmc2010.org/performers-main.html" target="main">return</a> </div> </p> </div> </div> </body> </html>