Yi-Ning Lo, currently based in Rochester New York, is a composer and pianist from Taiwan. Over the course of her artistic journey, she has drawn abundant inspiration for both vocal and instrumental compositions from a rich tapestry of literature, encompassing Western poems, Taiwanese folk tunes, ancient Chinese poetry, and Japanese haiku. For instance, her chorus work “Seek, Home” intricately weaves together contrasting texts in two languages: William Blake’s “Nurse’s Song” and the Taiwanese folk tune “A Bird Cries in Despair,” creating ambiguity and tension surrounding the concept of “home.” Her chamber-orchestra piece “Woven Veins” received the Christine Clark/Theodore Front Prize in 2019, gaining further recognition through broadcast on the radio show “Music of our Mothers” and an honorable mention in the fall journal issued by the International Alliance for Women in Music. More recently, her composition “Alien, Cabbage, and Me” (for live electronics and live video) explores her own language-learning experience as a non-native English speaker. This composition was selected by the Society of Composers for inclusion in their Super Regional Summer Mixtape in 2023.
