Renowned Artists

Born in 1987, Yo Matsushita was raised in Yokohama. He has a passion for spicy food and dreams of becoming a novelist in the future.

He studied under Mr. Masato Ikegami at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music and graduated at the top of his class, also receiving the Outstanding Performance Award. After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, Yo Matsushita continued his studies under the guidance of Mr. Tatsuya Sugawa. He received the Acantus Music Award and successfully completed his graduate studies.

Yo Matsushita has achieved numerous accolades throughout his career, including winning the 1st Ichinomiya Music Competition and the 4th Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition. He secured the 2nd place in the saxophone division of the 31st Japan Wind and Percussion Competition and reached the semifinals in the 6th Adolphe Sax International Competition.

As a participant in the 2015 Agency for Cultural Affairs’ overseas short-term dispatch program, he honed his skills in Bordeaux, France. Yo has appeared as a guest soloist with various professional orchestras and wind ensembles worldwide. He actively participates in the World Saxophone Congress held in different countries, conducting masterclasses and concerts abroad. Additionally, he serves as a jury member for international competitions.

His focus lies mainly on solo performances, showcasing virtuosic skills and a wide range of repertoire. Yo Matsushita is known for his innovative projects, such as embracing the trends of the 21st century, playing the C-melody saxophone, developing new techniques in contemporary music, and publishing arrangement scores. He is continually exploring new horizons in his activities across various regions in Japan.

As the leader of “Tokyo Rock’n Sax,” he flawlessly reproduces the sounds of progressive and hard rock bands using only the saxophone. He is also the baritone saxophonist for the “Panda Wind Orchestra” and serves as the executive committee chairman for the YSA, a large-scale saxophone orchestra consisting of Kanagawa residents. Additionally, he works as a part-time lecturer in the saxophone department at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music.

Dr. Sean Yusheng Xue, a native of Shanghai, China, is praised as “one of the most exciting Chinese saxophonists of the young generation.” He has won top prizes in numerous international competitions, including the Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition, Concours Saxiana in France, LISMA International Music Competition, and Concours Saxo Voce in France.

An active performer and educator, Dr. Xue has presented recitals and masterclasses at institutions and venues including the New England Conservatory, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall, and Shanghai Conservatory of Music High School. He has appeared as a soloist with IRCAM, the Soochow University Wind Ensemble, the Shanghai Jiaotong University Wind Ensemble, and the Zhong Fu Yin Symphonic Band. He also teaches regularly at major saxophone festivals and academies throughout Asia.

Dr. Xue is the founder of the Alah Quartet, one of China’s earliest saxophone quartets. The ensemble has performed at major venues including Shanghai Symphony Hall and the Oriental Arts Center, and has championed new works by Chinese composers such as Zhu Jianer and Xu Jianqiang. Their arrangement of “Chasing Tiger” from traditional Peking Opera became an online sensation in China.

Currently a saxophone lecturer at the Soochow University School of Music, Dr. Xue holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and the Conservatoire de Cergy-Pontoise in France. His past teachers include Chien-Kwan Lin, Otis Murphy, and Jean-Yves Fourmeau.

Born in Taipei in 1981, Chun-Hao KU is an accomplished saxophonist and interdisciplinary artist. He holds degrees from Tunghai University (Taiwan), the National Conservatory of Cergy-Pontoise (France), the National Conservatory of Bordeaux (France), and the Vienna City Conservatory (Austria). His principal teachers include Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Alexandre Souillart, and Lars Mlekusch, with additional studies in early music interpretation and transcription under cellist François Poly.

Throughout his career, he has been invited to perform at major international saxophone festivals and competitions, including the World Saxophone Congress (WSC), Dinant International Saxophone Competition (Belgium), Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition, Singapore Saxophone Symposium, and the Brittany International Saxophone Academy (France). In 2019, he was invited to Moscow’s SounDrama Studio, where he participated in a three-week interdisciplinary training and performance project with theatre director Vladimir Pankov and composer Artyom Kim.

His artistic practice spans a wide range of musical genres and performance styles, from early Baroque and classical saxophone repertoire to contemporary solo and chamber music, electro-acoustic improvisation, and cross-disciplinary performances incorporating theatre and dance. In recent years, he has taken on the role of producer for numerous innovative projects, including 拾音．時音 (Au-delà du Son) (2022‒2023) and 聲之異變 (Metamorphosis of Sound) (2024).

Currently, Chun-Hao KU serves as Artistic Director of Ensemble SonusGlaneur (E.SG), Curator of the i-Saxo International Saxophone Festival, and performer with the International Society for Contemporary Music ‒ Taiwan Section (ISCM-TW), where he was a Board Member (2022‒2024) and now holds the position of Supervisor (2025). In 2025, he will be a Visiting Scholar at Tokyo College of Music, continuing his mission to expand the artistic possibilities of the saxophone.

Shyen Lee is the first Taiwanese saxophonist who received professional training and academic degrees to teach the instrument at the university level. He dedicates himself to artistic saxophone performance through pedagogy and commissioning original repertoire.

Since 2005, Lee has worked as professor of saxophone in the College of Music, Mahidol University, Thailand. In 2019, he was invited as a jury for Adolph Sax International Saxophone Competition in the birthplace of the inventor, Dinant, Belgium. Shyen Lee has actively initiated many international events to promote the instrument. He is the main organizer of the Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition, World Saxophone Congress XV, Thailand International Composition for Saxophone and the Asian Saxophone Congress. He was elected as the World Saxophone Congress International Saxophone Committee for the terms 2009-12 and 2018-21. Shyen Lee has appeared as a solo recitalist in various concert halls including Lincoln Center, Paine Hall at Harvard University, Montreal, Minneapolis, Columbia (SC, USA), Champaign (Ill, USA), Paris, Bordeaux, Fermo (Italy), Vienna, Ljubljana (Slovenia), St. Andrew (UK), Strasbourg, Zagreb (Croatia), Kiev, Odessa (Ukraine), Mallorca (Spain), Kraków (Poland), Bangkok, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, and Taipei.

Shyen Lee commissioned and premiered pieces by John Harbison, Frank Ticheli, Larry Bell, Gunther Schuller, and Bernard Rands. In addition to performing saxophone repertoire by Western composers, he also commissioned pieces by leading Chinese composers including Lei Liang, Yiu-Kwong Chung, ChihChun Chih-sun Lee, Tzyy-Sheng, Che-Yi Lee and Shih-Hui Chen. Several emerging Thai composers have often written new works for him, including Narong Prangcharoen, Jiradej Setabundhu, and Boonrut Sirirattanapan.

Shyen Lee studied with Kenneth Radnofsky at the New England Conservatory (BM, 96) and Dr. John Sampen at Bowling Green State University (MM, 98).

Assistant Professor Dr.Wisuwat Pruksavanich is a Thai saxophonist specializing in contemporary classical music, internationally recognized for his artistic innovation and research on extended techniques and cross-cultural performance practice. In 2026, he was appointed a Selmer Saxophone Artist with Henri Selmer Paris.

He gained international attention as a soloist in the world premiere of The Dawn of Darkness by Narong Prangcharoen with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra at Sumida Triphony Hall, Tokyo. His album Hard Fairy received a nomination for Best Instrumental Album, and he was nominated for Best New Artist at the Komchadluek Awards.

Dr.Wisuwat holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the College of Music, Mahidol University, and a Doctorate in Saxophone Performance from the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków. His work focuses on contemporary saxophone techniques, creative performance, and the integration of Western and Asian musical aesthetics.

An active international performer and educator, he has presented concerts, lectures, and masterclasses across Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States. His projects, including Multiphonic Virtuoso and An Imperfect Scheme, explore extended techniques, complex rhythmic structures, and new sonic possibilities for the saxophone.

He is a member of the Bun-Leng Project and currently teaches at the College of Music, Mahidol University. He also serves on the committees of the Asian Saxophone Congress and the Thailand Saxophone Association, and is a co-founder of Samila Sound, a platform dedicated to bridging the gap between contemporary saxophone artistry, scholarly education, and the sustainable growth of creative labor.

Michellina Chan, 陈嘉灵, is a Singaporean saxophonist, educator & interdisciplinary collaborator.

Michellina’s musical endeavours span 3 continents, more than 17,000 km. After graduating from the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) with a Bachelor of Music (Performance) with First Class Honours, she won the highly coveted Welsford Smithers Memorial Travelling Scholarship which made her European adventures possible. She went on to pursue a Master of Music studying with Arno Bornkamp at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Amsterdam University of the Arts and the Diplôme d’Etudes Musicales (DEM) at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux Jacques Thibaud, Bordeaux, France under the tutelage of Marie-Bernadette Charrier.

Her solo projects often blur the line between performance and participation, using playful and engaging formats such as game shows, shared rituals and guided conversations to create intimacy and accessibility in contemporary music settings. Through these experiences, Michellina seeks to shift perceptions of classical music - from something observed at a distance to something lived, shared and felt together.

As a soloist and educator, Michellina has performed and taught at several international festivals such as Melbourne Summer Saxophone Academy, Kuching Youth Band Fiesta, World Saxophone Congress 2015 & 2018, Asian Saxophone Congress 2016 & 2019, Singapore Saxophone Symposium, Wind Band Association Singapore Youth Band Festival and Performers(‘) Present International Artistic Research Symposium (Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music). Michellina currently holds the position of Adjunct Lecturer of Saxophone at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.

Michellina Chan is the first and only female Selmer Paris Artist in South-East Asia.

Leslie Wong Kah Ho is one of Singapore’s leading saxophonists, recognised for his contributions as a performer, educator, and advocate for saxophone education in Asia. A graduate of Mahidol University, College of Music and the University of Wyoming, he has performed internationally with ensembles including the Singapore Jazz Orchestra and the SAF Music and Drama Company, and has collaborated with renowned artists such as Kiri Te Kanawa and composer Eric Whitacre.

Leslie is the co-founder of the Amigo Saxophone Quartet and founder of the Asia Pacific Saxophone Academy. A dedicated pedagogue, he currently lectures at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, while actively mentoring young saxophonists across the region. He is also a performing artist for Selmer Paris and D'Addario Woodwinds.

Samuel Phua 潘培铭 is a Singaporean saxophonist and educator hailed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra as a “Singaporean Saxophone Extraordinaire.” A NAC Arts Scholar and graduate of the Sibelius Academy, he has performed with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Music Makers, The Philharmonic Winds, Singapore Wind Symphony, Voices of Singapore, and VENTUS.

A passionate champion of new music, Samuel has worked closely with many Singaporean and international composers, bringing new works for the saxophone to life through performance, recording, and collaboration. Through his work on stage, in the studio, and in the classroom, he is dedicated to pushing the saxophone beyond expectation — and placing Singaporean music firmly on the international stage.

Johann Koh is a performer and pedagogue from Singapore and a graduate from IU Jacobs School of Music, and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). He is currently pursuing a DMA at Florida State University, and has been under the tutelage of Dr. Leslie Wong Kah Ho, Dr. Geoffrey Deibel, and Dr. Otis Murphy. He has clinched numerous awards as a soloist, and as a quartet member at competitions such as the Fischoff, Coltman, MTNA, NOLA, Macauley, and NASA competitions.

He has taught at the Singapore Police Force Band, the Flute and Music Academy, and various school bands. He also taught undergraduate students in Indiana University and Florida State University as the performance fellowship recipient and teaching assistant, and has given masterclasses at Purdue University, Ho Chi Minh Conservatory, Singapore Raffles Music College, and NAFA.

Johann served as the director of the Protégé Saxophone ensemble from 2017-2023, and has been an active participant of the Singapore Saxophone Symposium since 2017. He has worked with ensembles such as the Philharmonic Orchestra Singapore, IU Philharmonic, the Royal College of Music Orchestra, and the Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra. He has performed at various venues such as the Shanghai, Harbin, Tianjin, Zagreb, and Ho Chi Minh music conservatories, as well as various universities and concert halls in 8 different states in the USA. He has also premiered works at the Asian Saxophone Congress in Taiwan, the World Saxophone Congresses in Croatia, and China, and multiple North American Saxophone Alliance conferences.

Johann is a Yamaha artist and a JLV Sound Paris ambassador.

Yun Qu Tan is a musician and music educator currently based in Georgia, USA and Singapore. She is passionate about new music collaborations, accessibility in music education and community-oriented artistry.

An avid solo and chamber musician, Yun Qu most recently performed as a soloist with the University of Georgia Wind Ensemble and the Northwestern University Chorale. She has garnered many accolades, including winner of the University of Georgia Concerto Competition 2026, third prize at the 2026 MTNA Chamber Music Competition, String Category and 1st prize at the 2024 North American Saxophone Alliance Quartet Competition.

As a composer and advocate of new music, Yun Qu has commissioned composers such as Stacy Garrop, Toh Yan Ee and Cole Reyes. In her own compositions, she explores working with electroacoustic mediums and recently clinched third prize at the 25-26 GA3D competition for her piece, Sketch, composed for ambisonics.

With a deep curiosity across multiple disciplines and an interest in ethnomusicology, her paper, Decolonizing the Classical Saxophone Field: Operating Within ‘Otherness’ as a Singaporean Saxophonist, was recently presented at the 2025 Society of Ethnomusicology conference. She has also presented her research at the 2024 Society for Ethnomusicology, Southeast and Caribbean Chapter conference and the 2023 Association of Asian Studies conference.

Currently, Yun Qu holds the saxophone teaching assistantship position at the University of Georgia where she enjoys teaching the saxophone studio and coaching the studio quartet.

Since 2025, Yun Qu has been a Yamaha Performing Artist.

Danielle is currently a Graduate Teaching Assistant pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A) degree at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG). Teaching at the collegiate level throughout Asia and the US, her repertoire spans across genres of classical, jazz, contemporary music and interdisciplinary performance. She was a grant recipient of fellowships such as theUNCG Alumni/Excellence/Hayes Fellowship Award, the Royal College of Music Excellence award, several US-based professional projects, and received competition accolades such as the Southard Music Competition (1st Place) and the Birmingham International Music Competition (3rd Prize).

As an international artist, she gave a guest artist recital at the University of Florida, at the Singapore International Saxophone Summit 2025 and 2026, in Thailand at the Asia Pacific Saxophone Academy in 2023 and commissioned new works at the 18th and 20th World Saxophone Congress in Croatia and China. She also performed with the UNC Compass Jazz Orchestra with Count Basie Orchestra vocalist Carmen Bradford, recorded an album of big band music for jazz composer Paul McKee, and in the Fort Collins Symphony with Stewart Copland’s Police: Deranged. Recently, Danielle presented several solo and collaborative recitals in Oxford, UK over the summer of 2026 with Truro Cathedral organ scholar Jeremy Wan.

Her research interests are primarily in music education and multiculturalism in music. Danielle has presented research on jazz in Singapore at the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference 2025 in Atlanta, and on music teaching pedagogy at 2025 Symposium on Music Teacher Education in Indiana.

Gao Xin is the Associate Professor of Saxophone at Truman State University and a Yamaha Performing Artist. An internationally active saxophonist, he has presented recitals and masterclasses throughout the United States, China, and Singapore at institutions including the University of North Texas, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, the China Conservatory of Music, the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, and the Singapore Raffles Music College. In 2024, he appeared as guest soloist at the China–United States Saxophone Art Festival, premiering Deqing Wen’s saxophone concerto High Mountains and Running Water with the University of North Texas Wind Symphony. He has also performed as soloist with professional orchestras and university ensembles in the United States and Asia.

As an advocate for contemporary music, Gao has collaborated with composers including David Maslanka, Viet Cuong, Gabriela Ortiz, Joel Love, Marc Mellits, Chen Yi, Deqing Wen, Leilei Tian, Zechariah Goh, Yunfei Li, and Wei Dai. In chamber music, he has performed extensively with ensembles including the QuadrAtomic Saxophone Quartet and the Sirocco Wind Quintet. His chamber groups have appeared as finalists in the Fischoff and Coleman Chamber Music Competitions and received the Coleman Sanderson Award, with performances throughout the United States and Asia.

Gao received First Prize in the MTNA National Young Artist Woodwind Competition and was also recognized in the ISSAC and Jean-Marie Londeix international saxophone competitions. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Duquesne University and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His artistic development was shaped by mentors including Yusheng Li, Zhenlong Xiang, Steve Stusek, Connie Frigo, and James Houlik.

The recipient of best Thai performer in Jean Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition 2017 and Selmer Saxophone Artist (Paris), Pisol Manatchinapisit has been awarded several prizes and honors. Highlights among these include the Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize (Europe, 2025).

He has participated and performed in numerous international music festivals across Asia, Europe, and the United States. A selection of his notable appearances includes events such as the World Saxophone Congress, Zürich International Saxfest, Beethovenfest Bonn, Cornell Biennial, and the China-ASEAN Music Festival.

An ardent advocate of new music, Pisol works extensively in acoustical contemporary music and music technology through new works by emerging composers. He served as Director of the IntAct Festival, a contemporary music and art festival in Thailand, during 2023 and 2024. He is saxophonist, conductor, and part of the management team for the Tacet(i) Ensemble, which focuses on performing contemporary works and was recently recognized as winner of the 2025 Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize. Pisol has been collaborating with many contemporary composers, notably Piyawat Louilarpprasert. As a soloist, his most notable projects include the world premieres of “Pixel for saxophone and orchestra” with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (2019), “reFlux for saxophone and orchestra” with The Symphony Orchestra of the University of the Philippines (2023), and “Flux for saxophone and Band” with the PGVIM Wind Band (2024).

Pisol currently holds a faculty position as saxophone instructor in the Woodwind Department at the College of Music, Mahidol University.

Lizheng Sheng began studying the saxophone at the age of fourteen. In 2017, he entered the School of Music of Soochow University, where he studied with Dr. Sean Xue. During his undergraduate studies, he served as principal saxophonist of the Soochow University Wind Orchestra and actively participated in various performances and competitions.

In 2022, Sheng entered the master’s programme at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Japan, studying with Professor Masato Ikegami and Professor Makoto Hondo. He won First Prize in the woodwind division of the college’s Concerto Competition and performed Jacques Ibert’s Concertino da Camera with the orchestra.

In 2024, he entered the doctoral programme at Tokyo College of Music, where he studies with Professor Toshihisa Ogushi. He is currently active internationally as a soloist and chamber musician.

“The perseverance after refining flows from the fingertips.” ̶ Central News Agency

Yen-Hsuan comes from Taoyuan, Taiwan. She is a Guzheng player, artist, and creator. She plays traditional, contemporary, experimental and electronic music, and improvisation. She achieved Master of Traditional Chinese Music at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in June 2017. Currently, she is a member of contemporary music trio “CUBE BAND” and one of the initiators of pop-up project “Hidden Routine”.

Yen-Hsuan is highly active in various performance domains as a soloist, chamber musician in theatre and cross-domain stages. Her performance style is not only novel and stable, but delicate and sincere. Her music is full of enthusiasm and imagery. She has always aimed to innovate the perspective on interpretation and techniques of music and to retain the traditional rhyme of Guzheng music simultaneously. On the other hand, Yen-Hsuan has also been creating electronic music. She tries to relate traditional music to electronic music through their similarities, especially the unsteady vibration of timbre in wooden instrument (Guzheng) and analog signal. Due to the feature, unsteady vibration of timbre, she was inspired by this kind of alternative aesthetic which influenced her music. Her creations not only focus on private emotion in community but also the aesthetic value of the East. Yen-Hsuan would like to connect the world and people with the new sound by combining traditional music and electronic music. In recent years, she has appeared at different festivals and projects which include CRIPPLED SYMMETRIES Festival, Jeonju Int’l Sori Festival, KNM CONTEMPORARIES - celebrities II, Taipei Art Festival, Krakowska Jesień Jazzowa, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab WANDERING Festival, Taipei International New Music Festival, World Music Festival Taiwan, Lacking Sound Festival, One More Festival and “Taipei, a Sound Magazine” with Ensemble KNM Berlin.

Cecilia Ratna, M. Mus. graduated with a Master of Piano Performance Degree from Jacobs School of Music under Edmund Battersby with a full GPA. After graduating from high school, she pursued her Bachelor of Music Degree at Pelita Harapan Conservatory (UPH) under the guidance of Mamoru Yabuki. During her study in Indiana, she was the recipient of the “Artistic Excellence Award” and was offered the position of Associate Instructor for the Secondary Piano Program. Her interest in music does not stop at piano alone. As a choir singer, she used to perform with the Batavia Madrigal Singers (Indonesia) and NOTUS Choir (USA). As a chamber musician, Cecilia has performed in a wide variety of settings, most recently at the Esplanade Recital Studio with the ADDO Orchestra, Jakarta Concert Orchestra, Indiana Ad Hoc Orchestra, and D’Java String Quartet. Her favorite musical endeavor is collaborating with vocalists and various instrumentalists, focusing on saxophone repertoire for the past years. Most importantly, she believes that the joy of learning and making music needs to be passed down to the next generation, and has been enthusiastically doing so through teaching piano since 2007. Cecilia is currently teaching part-time at the NAFA School of Music and School of Young Talent, Singapore.

Pianist I-An Chen has won numerous awards including the first prize of National Music Competition in her native country and the Ann Arbor Young Artist Competition. She has given diverse performances as a soloist and chamber musician, and has been seen on stage at various venues worldwide.

Ms. Chen holds two Master’s degrees: Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano, from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The auspicious experiences led to a successful career as a collaborative artist. She has been invited as the appointed collaborative pianist for The International Jean-Marie Londeix Saxophone Competition. Recent important performances included the Asian Saxophone Congress, Singapore Saxophone Symposium, Taiwan International Saxophone Symposium, Sax Art Festival (Shanghai), Li Shui International Saxophone Art Festival, and The World Saxophone Congress.

Ms. Chen enjoys a distinguished career as a performer and educator. She is currently on the artist faculty as Assistant Professor of the Music Department of Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, and serves as a regular piano collaboration instructor of the Graduate Institute of Performing Arts, National Taiwan Normal University.

Sirirattanapan was born in Thailand. Since 2003, Sirirattanapan has composed many pieces for computer, live electronics, chamber works, wind symphony as well as symphony orchestra. His recent projects are “Prae” for Saxophone and Electronics, “Plasma” for Electric Guitar and String Trio. One of these 2 pieces, “Prae”, was selected to perform in the World Saxophone Conference in Harbin, China in 2025, as well as at many festivals including the Singapore Saxophone Symposium 2025. He also composed the score for The De4D Echoes, a collaborative horror film by Thai and Malaysian filmmakers. Besides the 2 pieces for saxophone and various medium, Sirirattanapan is working on a documentary series about Thai Music in the contemporary context. This project is scheduled to broadcast on ThaiPBS channel in the last quarter of 2026.

His latest Saxophone works, Mekala and Ramasura, are mirror pieces that reflect each other. The former is for Saxophone and Thai Drum, the latter is for Saxophone and Roli, both interpret and express a mythological story about angel and demon, about lightning and thunder through sounds.

Sirirattanapan teaches composition, sound design, and music production at the Conservatory of Music, Rangsit University, Thailand.

Dr. Chia-Lin Pan is a full-time Professor of Music Composition at the University of Taipei. She received her Doctor of Music from Northwestern University. She studied with M. William Karlins, Yen Lu, Alan Stout, Augusta Read Thomas, Hwang-long Pan, and Jay Alan Yim (listed alphabetically by last name). Dr. Pan was the President of the ISCM-Taiwan Section (2019–2025) and has been an ISCM Executive Committee Member since December 2023.

As an active composer, Dr. Pan’s works are featured at major festivals, including the ISCM World New Music Days and Asian Composers’ League Festivals. She collaborates closely with leading contemporary ensembles, including the Pacifica String Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and Duo Diorama. Her music is also frequently performed and commissioned by the Ju Percussion Group, NanaFormosa Percussion Group, National Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan), Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Music Forum Ensemble, Taiwan Wind Ensemble, Chai-Found Music Workshop, Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra, and TimeArt Studio. In the choral realm, her works are performed by the Taipei Chamber Singers and Müller Chamber Choir.

Integrating Western and traditional Eastern instruments, Dr. Pan’s catalog spans orchestral masterworks, choral pieces, medium/large chamber works, and solo pieces. Engaging with such diverse forces, her oeuvre vividly demonstrates her stylistic variety, deep creativity, and rich musical imagination.

Hsieh Tsung-Jen is a Taiwanese composer, educator, and Chair of the Department of Music at National Taichung University of Education. He earned the highest artist diploma (Konzertexamen) from the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, where he studied with Johannes Schöllhorn, and received his composition degrees from Taipei National University of the Arts. His major honors include First Prize in the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition for Love Me, Sea! and Second Prize at the Computer Space Music Festival in Bulgaria for his electroacoustic work Stroll. His music has been performed by distinguished ensembles including Ensemble Intercontemporain, Trio Amos, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, and Taipei Chamber Singers.

Jacob David Sudol uses new technologies to create intimate compositions that explore enigmatic phenomena, the inner nature of how we perceive sound, as well as novel connections between Eastern and Western musical cultures. His music has been performed over 200 times by many prestigious ensembles and performers across North America, East and Southeast Asia, and Europe. In addition, a chapter that Dr. Sudol wrote on his music is published in the Oxford University Press Handbook of Spectral Music.

In 2012, Dr. Sudol founded a cello/electro-acoustic duo with his colleague the distinguished cellist Jason Calloway and, since 2010 he has been in the Misty Shore Duo, a piano/electro-acoustic duo with his wife Chen-Hui Jen. He has also worked as a recording engineer and producer for albums released on Mode, Albany, Bridge, MSR, Metier, Centaur, and Neuma Records.

Dr. Sudol is currently an Associate Professor of Music Technology and Composition at Florida International University and Coordinator of the Music Technology Area, where he was also awarded a Faculty Award for Research and Creative Activities in 2016. He also was awarded a 2015-16 Fulbright Fellowship to research and teach in Taiwan.

Pradit Saengkrai is a music composer, multidisciplinary artist, sound engineer and a full-time music teacher at the Conservatory of Music, Rangsit University. He is specialized in sound design, live-coding, and modular synth. He started his music journey by playing Thai traditional music since he was 4 years old. His works usually combine technology and culture altogether because of his Thai traditional music background.

His style of music could be varied from classical music to electronic to rock depends on the idea at the moment. He takes music genres as vessels to bring his music journey to the destination, listener’s joy. His debut work was with Sepia, a legendary Thai underground rock band in the 20’s, in the third album “Mai Tong Sai Toong”. He collaborated with many indie and mainstream music artists afterward; Guitarmok and Pink, Suburbian, Lana Cummins, Bird Thongchai McIntyre, to name a few. He performed modular audiovisual performance both domestically and internationally; Soundbridge Festival 2025 in Malaysia, BEAST FEaST 2025 in United Kingdom, Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival 2016 in Indonesia.

Founded in 2018 and based in Singapore, New Meta Quartet is dedicated to the mission of championing local works, promoting saxophone repertoire and connecting with audiences through their musical artistry. Drawing on their collective experiences of performing, teaching, research and local/international collaboration, the group brings new and evolving perspectives that further the development of the saxophone through bringing musical communities together.

Involved in the local music scene, New Meta Quartet advocates for collaboration with local composers through commissioning. Notably, the quartet has commissioned works by composers Zechariah Goh, Yuting Tan, Wong Cheow Cai and Yan Ee Toh. The quartet has also performed at numerous venues spanning across countries such as Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and the US. Recently, they presented and performed at the 20th World Saxophone Congress in Harbin, China.

Founded in 2014, the Protégé Saxophone Ensemble is a semi-professional arts group based in Singapore that performs solo and ensemble saxophone works annually. Comprising of both amateur and professional saxophonists who are passionate about performing saxophone music, Protégé was originally a collective of saxophone students under the tutelage of Mr. Leslie Wong.

List of players: Chen BoWen, Chen HongJia, Dang ZiHao, Duan HeZhiWei, Huang RuiYao, Li Heng Yu, LuWu YiDi, Luo ZhiWen, Ma TianRui, Yin Hao Yu, Fu Xuefei, Tyrell New, Yang Zongao.

SRMC Saxophone Ensemble was formed in 2024 and comprises students from Singapore Raffles Music College under the guidance and direction of Dr Leslie Wong.

Since its formation, the ensemble has successfully presented two chamber concerts at SRMC and has been invited to perform at the 20th World Saxophone Congress, Wuhan Conservatory of Music, Central South University of Forestry and Technology in Changsha, the 2024 Protégé Concert, as well as the 2025 and 2026 Singapore International Saxophone Summit.

TODSAX5TETT presents the world premiere of Smooth and Striated, a new work by Tim O’Dwyer inspired by the philosophical concepts of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Exploring the tension between freedom and structure, the performance moves between fluid collective improvisation (“smooth” space) and rhythmic, gestural frameworks (“striated” space) shaped in real time through soundpainting gestures.

The performance also features the UAS CCA Gamelan Ensemble led by NAFA’s Joyce Teo, with performers Jody Choo Yi Xin, Aaron Morala Mirontos, Jayda Tan Ming Hui, Juhardi Mohamed, and Wendy Lim Ling Ling, creating a layered dialogue between gamelan sonorities and saxophone textures.

Performed on a rare family of vintage Conn saxophones and matching mouthpieces dating from the 1920s and 30s, the ensemble produces a richly unified and resonant sonic identity. The group features Tim O’Dwyer (sopranino saxophone, Soundpainting), Michellina Chan (alto saxophone), Vincent Tan (tenor saxophone), Justin Ng (baritone saxophone), and Tan Li Hao (soprano saxophone). Through conducted improvisation, layered rhythmic cycles, and evolving melodic fragments, Smooth and Striated traces shifting relationships between pulse and freedom, precision and spontaneity.