Tommy Yu (Mandarin: 余 昶 賢; Jilóng, November 23, 1979) is a Taiwanese composer and fluteist.
LifecycleYu left at the age of 14 in the United States. He studied at the Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, and obtained his Bachelor of Music. Then he studied composition at the University of Nevada (UNLV) in Las Vegas. His teachers include April Clayton and Richard Soule (flute) and Michael Hicks, Murray Boren, Jorge Grossmann and Virko Baley (composition).
Like any young composer, he is looking for implementing possibilities for his works. As a composer with Asian background, he always incorporates elements in his compositions that we regard as an indicative Asian musical idiom. Usually the typical Asian folk music is put together in 3/4 and 9/8 sizes and sometimes in 5/8 and 7/8 rhythms. Although the pentatonic scale is also very common in Asia, the chromate was used and used in Asia with unprecedented walks of Western music.
In 2003 he won the Young Artist Competition of the Utah Valley Symphony Orchestra and also won a second prize at the Taipei Flute Competition in 2002 for his work The Morning Nocturne for Flute and Piano. Compositions Working for concert orchestra Chamber music Externe link
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