Tzu-Chin Hsu is a composer and art administrator whose music is inspired by the current climate, social interaction, and cultivating valuable collaboration. Hsu works with prominent ensembles, artists, and institutions nationally and internationally to create meaningful initiatives that resonate with both performers and audiences. She is the project manager and co-founder of the nonprofit music festival Enlightenment Summer Festival in Taiwan and has been a composition fellow at the Albany Symphony Composer Workshop and Talis Music Festival.

A versatile electronic, opera, and orchestra composer, Tzu-Chin wrote the electronic music for IN/EX, a collaboration with choreographers Kayla Senter, Sabrina Blackwelder and lighting designer Matt Hineman, which premiered at B. Iden Payne Theatre in 2022. With librettist Camden Boyle, Tzu-Chin premiered an 18-minute opera, Audition Fever, for the Butler Opera Center in 2021.
Her orchestra piece, High Hurdle, commissioned by the Taipei Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, was premiered at Taiwan National Concert Hall.      
 
Tzu-Chin’s works have been commissioned, performed, and recorded by leading ensembles such as the BBC Singers, HANATSUmiroir, Butler Opera Center, Quince ensemble, Soundinitiative, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, and the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, amongst others. Tzu-Chin’s music has won numerous awards including the first prize at the Lisker Music Foundation Composition Challenge (2019), second prize at the Virginia Carty DeLillo Composition Competition (2017), second prize in the Taiwan National Music Competition (2012), and the first prize in the Taipei Music Competition (2011). 
 
Tzu-Chin earned her Bachelor of Music in Composition from The Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore, her Master of Music at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, and her Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was awarded the Dissertation Writing Fellowship.

Name note: Tzu-Chin pronounces her name Dz Chin Shyur.