Yun-Yu Chiang Yun-Yu Chiang

Yun-Yu Chiang has loved music since childhood and has a naturally full, sweet voice. A graduate of National Taiwan University of Arts and its Graduate Institute of Performing Arts, Chiang specializes in the theory and performance of folk songs and in interdisciplinary research in the performing arts. Chiang's singing and interpretation of Hakka mountain songs are distinctive in style and insight and widely acclaimed. In 1997, Chiang gave “Voices of Home Around the Rafters: Yun-Yu Chiang Hakka Folk Song Recital” (鄉音繞梁～姜雲玉－客家歌謠獨唱會) at the National Concert Hall, the first Hakka folk song solo recital ever held in Taiwan.

Current positions: director of the Taiwan Hakka Mountain Song Troupe and adjunct instructor at National Taiwan University of Arts.