Kueiju Lin Kueiju Lin

Composer Kueiju Lin was born in Taipei and grew up in Kaohsiung. Working across a wide range of musical forms, Lin has long collaborated with theatre, dance and other performing arts, continuing to explore the core values of music through dialogue.

Recent works have been invited to festivals in Taiwan and abroad, including Festival OFF Avignon in France, the OzAsia Festival in Australia, the Busan International Performing Arts Festival, the Bangkok International Festival of Dance and Music, the Singapore Chinese Festival of Arts (Huayi), the Taiwan International Festival of Arts and the Taipei Children’s Arts Festival. Among the productions Lin has conceived and led, M.O.V.E. Theatre’s “Resonance” (共鳴体) was nominated in the fourth quarter of the 19th Taishin Arts Award; “Rage” (狂起) won four major awards at the 2017 Bangkok International Festival of Dance and Music; and “John Cage at One” (凱吉一歲) was named one of the five Works of the Year at the 12th Taishin Arts Award. In 2022, as music director collaborating with Golden Melody Award winner Sangpuy, Lin created the interdisciplinary work “The Promise of Eternal Clear Skies” (永晴之許), presented as part of the opening season of the Taipei Performing Arts Center. In 2025, Lin’s sound design for “John Cage at One – Never Look Back” (凱吉一歲－永遠不回頭) was nominated for Best Theatre Design at the first Taipei Theatre Awards.

Lin holds a PhD in composition from the University of California, San Diego (U.C. San Diego) and a bachelor’s degree in theory and composition from the Department of Music of the National Institute of the Arts, and is currently a full-time Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Shih Chien University.