劉芝瑄 Chih-Shiuan Liu

劉芝瑄，畢業於臺北醫學大學藥學系。目前就讀國立臺灣師範大學音樂系研究所主修作曲，師事陳瓊瑜教授。作曲曾師事胡宇君老師。小提琴曾師事呂佳旻老師，現師事黃郁婷教授。曾為北京大石詞曲版權簽約作者及聽好音樂配樂工作者。現為醫聲室內樂團小提琴團員。

2019及2020年擔任長榮交響音樂營樂團首席。2020年舉辦《女巫手札》個人音樂創作發表會。2021年由醫聲室內樂團於國本農場80週年音樂會首演作品《春鳴》。2023年獲校內徵選於臺灣音樂館發表作品《銀河列車》。2023年9月赴日參加武生國際音樂節作曲工作坊並獲獎學金。

Chih-Shiuan Liu, graduated from the department of pharmacy at Taipei Medical University, is now pursuing a master's degree in composition at National Taiwan Normal University, studying with Professor Chiung-Yu Chen. Chih-Shiuan has studied composition with Dr. Yu-Chun Hu and studied violin with Chia-Min Lu and currently Professor Yu-Ting Huang.

Chih-Shiuan has worked as a songwriter for Touch Music Publishing and composer for Aux Punch Music. Presently she is a violinist in Physician's Chamber Orchestra of Taiwan (PCOT).

In 2019 and 2020, she served as the concertmaster of the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra Music Camp. In 2020, she held her composition recital and premiered A Witch's Diary (for string quartet). In 2021, The Sound of Spring (for string orchestra) is premiered in Taitung by PCOT. In 2023, Train to the Galaxy (for flute, violin and piano) is presented at the Taiwan Music Hall, National Center for Traditional Arts. She also participated as one of the scholarship winners in the Takefu International Music Festival 2023 in Japan.

【參賽作品】白露與鷺 Egret in the Autumn

「蒹葭蒼蒼，白露為霜。所謂伊人，在水一方。」靈感源自於《詩經・秦風・蒹葭》。我將詩中的伊人幻化為一隻白鷺鷥，以臺灣歌謠《白鷺鷥》的旋律為主體，將音高、節奏重組後形成嶄新的樣貌嵌入作品中。

開頭弦樂塑造了秋日水岸氤氳的場景，木管以片段式的旋律拼接，好像白鷺鷥靈動的身影時近時遠，點綴其中。中段首先由豎笛帶出，其他木管接續唱著有台灣元素的旋律。接著各聲部的旋律不斷地銜接製造出追逐的動態感，象徵著逆流而上的過程，但最後卻無疾而終。然而人生即是在順流與逆流中展開的一場自我追尋之旅。

“Green, green the reed. Dew and frost gleam. Where’s she I need. Beyond the stream.”

 Inspired by an ancient Chinese poem from “The Book of Songs”. I transformed the figure in the poem into a graceful white egret, with the melody of the Taiwanese folk song “White Egret” into the composition after reshaping pitches and changing the rhythm.

 The opening strings depict a misty autumn riverside, while the woodwinds, with fragmented melodies, evoke the images of the white egret. In the middle section, the clarinet first introduces the reconstructed melody from Taiwanese folk song, and then follow by other woodwinds. Then the melodies from each section seamlessly connect, creating a sense of chasing, symbolizing the journey of overcoming challenges, but it eventually comes to an end. However, life is a journey of self-discovery, navigating through both easy and challenging times.

2023.12.11