Hsueh-Yung Shen, born in 1952 near Washington, DC, began composition at eight. He received
most of his musical training with Nadia Boulanger in France, between 1962 and 1966, and also
studied with Darius Milhaud in 1967 at Aspen, Colorado, and Leon Kirchner and Lukas Foss at
Harvard University between 1969 and 1973. He received his DMA in composition from Stanford
University in 1980, and taught at Stanford for two years, and at Harvard for four years. Since 1987 he has lived in the Austin area in Texas, where he is timpanist with the Austin Opera, and taught at Southwestern University for 16 years in music theory.

His works have been featured in the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Concord String Quartet, Grand Teton
Music Festival, the “Suzuki and Friends” chamber ensemble in Indianapolis, and Bargemusic in
New York. In 1998 he made his Nordic debut at the Summartónar Festival in the Færoe Islands.
His Concertino, written for the Aldubáran Ensemble, was performed and recorded on TUTL in the
Færoes in 2002, and Aldubáran premiered his Sinfonietta in 2013. Other performances include the
Met Orchestra with Legend in October 2002, and the American Composers Orchestra in March
2003 in New York with Autumn Fall. He made his London debut in 2005 with the eight-violin
Prelude and Scherzo performed by the Menuhin School at Wigmore Hall. In 2010 the Corona
Guitar Quartet from Copenhagen premiered the Sinfonia Concertante with the Lithuanian State
Symphony Orchestra in Vilnius. Albany Records has released And Then, Things Changed for flute
and piano with Jan Vinci and Hugh Sung, Polar Nights with the Corona Guitar Quartet, and The
Lion and the Horse for alto saxophone and natural horn with Lynn and Laura Klock.