Yu-Hui Chang

Yu-Hui Chang, a noted composer from Taiwan who now teaches at Brandeis University, will visit Salt Lake City next week as part of the University of Utah’s Maurice Abravanel Distinguished Composers Series.

While here Chang will give a lecture and a talk and have several of her works performed by the Canyonlands Ensemble.

Chang was born in 1970 in Taiwan and moved to the United States in 1994 to continue her music studies. She did graduate work at Boston University and Brandeis University in Massachusetts. She is currently the co-artistic director of Boston’s Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble.

As a composer, Chang has received numerous commissions and her works have been performed in several European countries, including the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom and Denmark, as well as in Asia, New Zealand and the United States.

Below is a schedule of events, all of which take place on Nov. 24 and are free and open to the public.

• 10:45 a.m. – Lecture: Yu-Hui Chang’s Compositional Methods (David Gardner Hall 416).
• 12 p.m. – Talk: “No, I Do Not Blend East and West” (Dumke Recital Hall, David Gardner Hall).
• 7:30 p.m. – Concert: Canyonlands Ensemble. Music by Chang, Kurtág, Kagel, Berio and Xenakis (Dumke Recital Hall, David Gardner Hall).