Composer
Chen Shuhe Yue is a composer whose works are inspired by drama, visual art, literature, psychology and philosophy. Her works include solo, chamber, orchestra, new music theater, electroacoustic music and sound installation. She received a Master’s degree in Composition at the Mannes School of Music, and now is the Doctoral Fellow at Manhattan School of Music.
Selected Works
Hyper Hypo (2025)
Flute, Bassoon, Piano, Electronics, and Video
by Apply Triangle
Sonnet 66 (2025)
For Voice solo and Electronics
Voice by Ty Bouque
Pinocchio’s nose (2024)
For Bassoon solo (with 4 air pedals and a bell)
Bassoon by Ben Roidl-Ward
Z.Z.B.(2022)
For Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano
by Ensemble PHACE
Twins in One (2024)
GuZheng Solo
GuZheng by Jing-Mu Kuo
2B or not 2Bee (2024)
Accordion Duo
Con:trust Duo - Marius Staible & Daniel Roth
( Soprano by Chen Shuhe Yue )
for Soprano, Violin, Double Bass, 2 Bassoons, Tuba
and a bunch of instruments for audiences
— Black Monk
(2022)
Music theatre work
Black Monk 4 minutes excerpt
Black Monk is originally a short story by playwright Anton Chekhov, the black monk is a hallucination that often converses with the man, leading him to immerse himself in the world of his genius but decadent in the real world. As Chekhov said, he just wanted to portray a man suffering from delusions of grandeur; at that time, he was deeply interested in psychiatry.
My black monk is a shadow, a mirror, an innermost desire. In my work, the four music sections stand on different perspectives to show the relationship between the black monk and others. The first is the black monk with its ontology; the second is the black monk being suppressed and trying to reveal itself to the outside world; The third is Black Monk seems to be absent, but it is secretly awakening the black monks of all people; the fourth is the black monk of all people being awakened and they all start to grow. In the third part, some of the audience would participate in the performance.
The text is in Quenya, an Elvish language that was created by Tolkien in his Middle-earth fiction.
— When the Consciousness Burning 当意识在燃烧
String Quartet
(2020-2021)
(by Jack Quartet)<When the Consciousness Burning> is inspired by my years of severe insomnia. During the frozen sleeping time, the consciousness, preconsciousness and subconsciousness can be detected and felt when all senses are infinitely magnified. The "burning" is the process that shows the decay of consciousness and the growth of others. When the activity of the body starts to decline, the spirit begins to gather those scattered memories and draw. Breathing is always the clue to this unquantifiable sensory world.