Master of Music in Department of Chinese Music, Tainan National University of the Arts.
An active young sheng performer in Taiwan's music scene, Chang Ya-Yuan is renowned for her precise, refined, and explosive performance style, having earned top honors in numerous solo competitions over the years. In addition, she excels in the art of sheng collaborative performance and is frequently invited to serve as a collaborative sheng artist for competitions and concerts.
Her key experience in recent years includes participating in the production of Chinese music audio-visual releases by Han Lin Publishing in 2017, co-recording the classic suona piece Hundreds of Birds Worshipping the Phoenix. In 2019, she was invited alongside prominent young Taiwanese suona artist Tseng Chien-Yun to South Korea for cultural exchange, performing at the 18th Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival. In 2020, she officially joined the Tainan City Chinese Orchestra.
Prior to joining the orchestra, she worked as a freelance musician, devoting herself to music performance, education, and serving as a sheng player in various major Taiwanese orchestras. From 2017 to 2019, she performed in annual concerts across Taipei, Tainan, and Kaohsiung with the Taiwan Philharmonic Chinese Orchestra. In 2018, she took part in the annual album recording for the National Chinese Orchestra Taiwan (NCO). In 2019, she joined Tsai Hui-Peng's Sheng Power Ensemble for an exchange performance with the Huaxia Heming Sheng Orchestra, led by Chinese Class-1 Performer Professor Li Guang-Lu. In September of the same year, she performed in the Taipei Chinese Orchestra's season concert "New World of Chinese Music – Chen Tscheng-Hsiung & TCO."
Throughout her performing career, she has held numerous solo and joint concerts, including the Chang Ya-Yuan Sheng Concert at Dreamland Hall in Tainan in 2014, and her Master's Graduation Sheng Solo Recital at the TNUA Department of Chinese Music Concert Hall in 2016. In 2020, she co-hosted the Endless Harmony Sheng & Yangqin Joint Concert with Lin Yung-Yuan, yangqin player of the Tainan City Chinese Orchestra, at the Original Theater of the Tainan Cultural Center, all receiving enthusiastic acclaim. Looking forward, she aims to raise the international visibility of the sheng through diverse performance programs and collaborative formats, introducing this ancient Chinese instrument to a broader global audience.