Pan Shiji

Pan Shiji was born in Taipei, and her family emigrated to Canada in 1974. She took piano lessons and studied composition with in Taiwan. In Canada, she studied composition with Robert Turner at the University of Manitoba from 1976 to 80 and then in America studying with Chou Wen-chung at Columbia University, New York, from 1980 to 1988. During this time, she worked at the Columbia Center for Ethnomusicology. In 1988, she returned to Taiwan and took a position as professor of composition at the National Academy of the Arts. Her manuscripts are housed in the Liu Collection, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg. ==Works==

Selected works include: Orchestra: • Dream World, 1979 • Music for Orchestra, 1980 • 3 Pieces, 1982 • Raining Night, 1997–9 Vocal: • The Lodge Amid the Bamboos, 1980 • Paiju sanshou [3 Haiku], 1991 • 3 Songs (Pan), 1996 • In the Dark (Pan), 1998 • Qiu Lu, 1998 Chamber and solo instrument: • Music for Hn and Pianoforte, 1979 • Music for Pianoforte, 1979 • Wind Quintet, 1979 • Brass Quintet, 1980 • String Quartet in 1 Movement, 1980 • Ensemble, 1981 • Hudson River Caprice, 1981 • String Quartet, 1981 • Piece, 1984 • String Quartet no.1, 1985 • String Quartet no.2, 1986 • String Quartet no.3, 1988 • Dubai de nigu [The Soliloquy of Pandora], 1990 • Configuration – Transformation – Shape • Shapes, 1996 • Si, 1997 • String Quartet no.4, 1998 ==Writings==

• "Wei'erdi de geju yu guojia yishi" [Nationalism in Verdi's operas], Lishi yuekan, xiii/2 (1989) • "Genji monogatari de yinyue shenghuo: shitan yazhou yinyue wenhua jiaoliu" [Musical life in the Tale of Genji: a study in Asian musical exchange], Yishu pinglun (1990), no.10 • "Anuo Xunbaike xunzhao shi'eryin zuopin hesheng ji qushi de tongyixing" [Schoenberg in search of harmonic and formal unity], Yishu pinglun (1993), no.10; (1995), no.10 • "Ershi shiji yinyue xin shengsi" [New ideas on 20th-century music] Biaoyan yishu zazhi (1994), no.9 ==References==