Chun ChiangCOMPOSER · SHENG
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Chun Chiang holding a sheng
Composer & Sheng Performer · Taiwan

Chun Chiang

COMPOSER · SHENG

ComposerSheng performer

Building worlds between the notes,
giving sound its shape through breath.

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Mind & Illusion: A Sonic Realm — concert artwork
UPCOMING PERFORMANCE · 2026—2027

Mind & Illusion: A Sonic Realm

Music for Saxophone, Sheng, and Electroacoustic

Artists from Taiwan and France bring together sheng, saxophones and electronics in five newly commissioned world premieres. Sound, light and theatrical space open a realm between the real and the imagined.

  • Taichung | Black Box, National Taichung TheaterTickets NT$1,200
  • Kaohsiung | Recital Hall, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)Tickets NT$800
  • Taipei | Experimental Theater, National Theater & Concert HallTickets NT$1,200

Sheng | Chun Chiang, Li-Chin Li
Saxophones | Chun-Hao Ku, Alexandre Souillart
Presented by Ensemble SonusGlaneur

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01 / About

Thinking through composition.
Speaking through the sheng.

Black-and-white portrait of Chun Chiang holding a sheng

Born in Keelung, Taiwan, Chun Chiang is a composer and sheng performer. He holds a master’s degree in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Taipei, where he studied with Chia-Lin Pan, following earlier composition studies with Yun Lu. He graduated from the seven-year Chinese Music program at Tainan National University of the Arts, specialising in sheng under Yen-Ping Jen, who first taught him in primary school. Further studies in China included sheng and hulusheng with Wang Huizhong, Tang Dazhi, Dong Ying and Wang Lei.

He previously served as principal sheng of the Tainan National University of the Arts Chinese Orchestra, performed with its Sheng Ensemble, and collaborated with the Taipei Chinese Orchestra (TCO) in the 2022–2023 and 2025–2026 seasons.

He is a collaborating artist with TCO for 2026–2027, principal sheng of the TCO Academy Orchestra, Music Director of Suona Gang, and a member of ISCM–Taiwan. Recent tours with Lo Ta-yu’s Spring Dragon Symphony Orchestra have taken him across Taiwan and China and to Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York’s Carnegie Hall. With TCO, he has also performed at the Berlin Philharmonie, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus and Vienna’s Musikverein.

His Etude for Soprano Sheng appears on TCO 2021 Selected Works of Sheng, published by TCO.

Publications & awards

In 2022, he received the Best Charismatic Stage Award and Best Interpretation Award in the sheng category at The Star of Taoyuan Instrumental Competition, organised by the Taoyuan Chinese Orchestra.

In 2024, 990921, Chelungpu was a finalist in the TCO International Composition Competition. The same year, he was selected for the National Symphony Orchestra’s Music Connects 2.0 International Composers Project.

990921, Chelungpu was included in TCO’s publication of the finalist works from its 2024 International Composition Competition.

In 2026, he won the bronze award in the A1 professional category of the Sheng and Reeds Festival Sheng Competition, jointly organised by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

02 / Composing

Inside the Process

Writing, reading, listening—finding sound together with performers.

Chun Chiang composing on a laptop beside a window while travelling
Composing on the road

From notes written in solitude
to sounds discovered together in rehearsal.

Chun Chiang discussing a score on a tablet with a collaborator
Conversations before rehearsal
Chun Chiang working through a full score with fellow musicians
Working through the score
Chun Chiang reading a score in the concert hall
Reading and reflection
Chun Chiang listening intently during rehearsal
Listening in rehearsal
03 / Selected Works

Works

2018–2026 / 41 works & versions

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04 / Listen

Let the Music Speak

From solo instruments to chamber ensembles and Chinese orchestra: listen to sound taking different forms.

Creative portrait of Chun Chiang playing sheng, framed by flames and newspaper
View the full playlist on YouTube ↗

Open “Listen” under any recorded work to explore its performances. Different recordings remain available separately.

05 / On Stage

Moments on Stage

Breath, light, and sound unfolding in the moment.

Sheng · Selected Performances

4 performances · 32 min 37 sec. From solo works to concertos, another side of the music.

Original playlist on YouTube ↗
Chun Chiang performing on sheng
SHENG / CHUN CHIANG

The Abacus Rings

Composer · Xiao Jiang & Lei Jiangong

Traditional sheng, abacus and chamber ensemble

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In the Frame

10 performance photographs, shuffled. Pause to stay with a favourite moment.

Chun Chiang playing sheng under blue stage lighting

Sheng / live performance

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06 / Sheng & Ensemble

Suona Gang

Primary ensemble / Music Director

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Suona Gang ensemble portrait in black, white and yellow
Suona Gang / ensemble portrait
About Suona Gang

Rooted in tradition,
playing towards new sounds.

Established in 2020 under the name Crazy Suona, Suona Gang places the suona at the centre of an adventurous ensemble practice. Moving between folk traditions, jazz and popular music, the group explores how inherited sounds can speak in the present.

Drawing on Taiwanese folk culture, the musicians reshape familiar material through unexpected instrumental combinations, humour and a restless sense of play. Their performances continue to open new possibilities for the suona across genres and on stage.

Biography adapted from the official presenter’s program:LunarFest Vancouver 2025 ↗

Music DirectorChun Chiang

One breath,
from the detail of a solo voice
to the breadth of an ensemble.

As Music Director of his primary ensemble, Suona Gang, Chun Chiang continues to bring composition and sheng performance into dialogue. Across chamber music, Chinese orchestra and cross-genre projects, the thinking of a composer informs his playing, while the experience of performance returns to the page.

Chun Chiang performing sheng on stageListen to more on YouTube ↗
PRIMARY ENSEMBLE / MUSIC DIRECTION

Suona Gang

Music Director

Toured with the ensemble in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island, Canada, in 2025.

Other ensembles & performance experience
ORCHESTRA

Taipei Chinese Orchestra

Collaborating artist, 2026–2027 season
Principal sheng, TCO Academy Orchestra

ON TOUR

Lo Ta-yu · Spring Dragon Symphony Orchestra

Tour appearances across Taiwan and China, and in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Lo Ta-yu and the Spring Dragon Symphony Orchestra after their performance at Carnegie Hall, New York.
Lo Ta-yu and the Spring Dragon Symphony Orchestra after their performance at Carnegie Hall, New York.
Image source: 羅大佑 Lo TaYou official Facebook ↗
Selected awards & performances

2024–2026 — Toured with Lo Ta-yu’s Spring Dragon Symphony Orchestra in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Chengdu, Macao, Guangzhou, Changsha, Shenyang, Zhengzhou, Fuzhou, Ningbo, Qingdao, Baotou, Hefei, Nanning, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Los Angeles, New York (Carnegie Hall) and San Francisco.

October 2026 — At the National Recital Hall, performed in the 2026 Taipei International New Music Festival concert presented by ISCM–Taiwan, premiering Tsu-Yao Yang’s Endo, alongside A Stroll Along Liuchuan by Lu Chang-Chien and his own Limitation.

May 2026 — Bronze award, A1 professional category, Sheng and Reeds Festival Sheng Competition, jointly organised by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

May 2025 — Presented a concert of his compositions at the KHS Concert Hall in Luzhou.

February 2025 — Toured with Suona Gang in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island, Canada.

November 2024 — Selected for the National Symphony Orchestra’s Music Connects 2.0 International Composers Project.

October 2024 — At the Taiwan Traditional Theatre Center, premiered Mei Yu-Hsuan’s Re(as)semble and Ghosts and Spirits by Chiu Yen-Ning in ISCM–Taiwan’s Windy City concert. June 2024 — Soloist in the sheng concerto The Dancing Age with the Taoyuan Chinese Orchestra at the National Concert Hall.

June 2024 — Presented a concert of his compositions at the University of Taipei. April 2024 — 990921, Chelungpu selected as a finalist in the TCO International Composition Competition. March 2024 — Guest sheng soloist with guan performer Tseng Yu-Yin and the Philharmonia Moments Musicaux orchestra, premiering Yun Lu’s Ink Traces III for sheng, guan and strings at the National Recital Hall.

October 2023 — Sheng player in Lo Ta-yu’s band at the South Music Festival concert East of Nanping.

July & October 2023 — Performed Wen-Chia Lien’s In Our Stomachs for sheng and electronics at the C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab’s IRCAM workshop presentation and its selection concert during the sound art festival.

March 2023 — Soloist in movements I, II and IV of the sheng concerto Symphonic Tone Painting: Peacock with the Taoyuan Chinese Orchestra at the Taoyuan Arts Center.

November 2022 — Performed Chia-Lin Pan’s Echoes II with the Ju Percussion Group at Taipei National University of the Arts, in a concert jointly presented with ISCM–Taiwan.

September 2022 — Best Charismatic Stage Award and Best Interpretation Award in the sheng category, The Star of Taoyuan Instrumental Competition.

April 2021 — Presented Pao: Chun Chiang’s Sheng and Composition Recital at the National Recital Hall.

07 / Contact

Let the next piece begin.

Composition commissions · Sheng performance · Arranging