Pan Shiji

Pan Shiji or Chew Shyh-Ji (; born 29 July 1957) is a Taiwanese composer, writer and music educator.

Biography 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