Originally from Taiwan, Janice Chia-Ying Shieh (she/her) is a composer, performer, educator and recording enthusiast. Janice believes that music is a communal life experience for everyone and advocates accessibility, inclusion, and education to the community. Her music connects with others through memories and spaces while reflecting herself as a habitual transpacific traveler. Shieh’s compositional practice is deeply informed by her decade-long performance experience as an established violinist while constantly exploring the forefront of contemporary experimental music at the culture and genre intersections. Her current research interest includes multi-species musicology, psychoacoustics, neurocognitive mechanisms, and interactive electroacoustic music.

Among numerous awards, her composition Once a Sea (2023) for flute/piccolo, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano was recently awarded the Libby-Larsen Prize by the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM). As a composer, Janice has collaborated with artists from various backgrounds including most recently the FLYDLPHN sextet on Cupola (2025) and marimbist Matt Sharrock on Rattle-nance (2025) at the SPLICE Institute. As a violinist, she has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician at Aspen Music Festival, International Lyric Academy, CICA Summer Music Festival, Salut-Taiwan Summer Music Festival. Her university-funded Primo Volo String Quartet was the semi-finalist at the 2020 Coltman Chamber Music Competition.

Janice holds M.M. in composition at Bowling Green State University, B.M. in composition, and B.M. in violin performance from University of North Texas. Her compositional style was influenced by her teachers – Piyawat Louilarpprasert, Marilyn Shrude, Christopher Dietz, Sungji Hong, and Andrew May. She has studied violin with Felix Olschofka, Eunice Keem, Ting-Yuh Wu, Chau-Chuan Chen, Wei-Hong Chen, Chih-I Chiang, Prajna Wang, and Cynthia Roberts on Baroque violin.

You can find Janice at “Join Janice Music Studio” in the Finger Lakes Region of New York, where she teaches at-home music lessons, works on commissioned projects, plays with sound and bakes traditional Taiwanese Castello cakes.