Spring 2022, spring 2023, and spring 2024 seminars: D.M.A. candidate, music
Michele Cheng, a 1.5 generation Taiwanese American, is an interdisciplinary composer intertwining diverse media such as music, experimental theatre, and puppetry to engage with social issues and cultural identities. Her works have been performed at CCRMA (Stanford, U.S.), ICMC (Santiago, CL), ISSTA (IE), SICMF (Seoul, K.R.), Sonorities (Belfast, U.K.), SEAMUS (U.S.), NYCEMF (NYC, U.S.), eavesdropping (London, U.K.), New Music Gathering (Portland, U.S.), Casa Obscura (Montréal, CA), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon (Dijon, FR), National Theater and Concert Hall (Taipei, TW), among others. She has received commissions from JACK Studio, National Sawdust, White Snake Project, and I Care If You Listen; grant from New Music USA; and a scholarship from Atlantic Center for the Arts. She is a co-founder of the experimental pop duet Meoark and fff, an interdisciplinary improv collective led by feminist media artists.