About Jui-Ying (Ray) Huang
The music in her mind, from the world between free art and military...
My work may not shout.
But it grows from the deepest contradictions of my life.
It doesn’t beg for attention — it holds its ground.
And in that quiet resistance, it becomes even more honest.
Isn’t that what art is supposed to be?
Art should not be a contest of postures.
It should be a space where each of us speaks from where it hurts, where it matters, where it’s real.
So I won’t hide my way of creating anymore — not to impress, not to conform.
This is the tension // flexibility in between...
This is my truth, my freedom.
EXPERIENCE
Work
2025 June- PhD Candidate in Music Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK.
2024-
Student Representative of the PhD programme in Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, U.K
Activities/Honour
2026 WASBE (World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles)
Warren Benson International Composition Contest –
• Winner of Category III Breakthrough
Selected Work will be workshopped in the 21st WASBE International Conference July 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2025 HCMF × Moers Festival – Experimental Encounters Residency, Selected Artist (Huddersfield (UK) / Moers (DE))
• Selected as one of four UK-based artists for this improvisation-led and composition residency
2025-26 London Symphony Orchestra – Soundhub Composer Programme, Final Shortlist
• Selected as one of the final shortlisted composers from over 100 applications
2025-26 Chaos // Freedom (Movement & Sound Research Project), Trinity Laban • Work featured in the 2025 London International Screen Dance Festival promo video;
ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration exploring new sound materials, ‘liberation rhythm‘ and collaborative methodologies.
2026 Resolution Festival (The Place, London, UK)
• Composer/ Presenter : composed the full original score for a selected choreographic theatre piece, The Breakouts
2025 WASBE Showcase (World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles)
• Composer/ Presenter : wind music work, The Missing Pulse – selected for WASBE Showcase
2025 The Clements Prize for Composers, international competition, London, UK
• Adjudication / Jury Member
2025 London International Screen Dance Festival
• Composer/ Presenter : music featured in the official festival promo/ screen dance work presented as part of
the official selection
2025 NYCEMF New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
• Composer/ Presenter : electroacoustic music of a screen dance work, Traces
2025 Club Inégales- RENEW series (Contemporary Improvisation)
• Performer: music improvisation with Taiwanese nose flute and piano, at Club Inégales, London.
2025 Sounds of Now Vienna Contemporary Music Festival (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna), Austria • Selected Composer and Merit-based Scholarship Award Receiver
2025 R.O.C. MND Orchestra /Symphonic Band WW2 80 Anniversary Concert (March, National Concert Hall, Taipei)
• Commissioned Windmusic, The Missing Pulse. (premiere)
2025 Displaced Concert (London, U.K)
• Improvisation Performer (Playing 'Lanligedan', a Taiwanese nose flute )
2025 Royal Musical Association Research Student Conference: Composition Presentation.
• March Militaire (Trio of Clarinet in Bb, Cello and Snare Drum), has been selected for performance/workshop by the contemporary chamber ensemble, Red Note Ensemble, at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
2024 First Prize of Gladys Puttick Music Improvisation Competition Award, Trinity Laban
2023 Commissioned by RACM (The Royal Corps of Army Music, UK) 30th Anniversary Album Recording Project
• String Orchestra Piece: A Fluid Engine, premiered by the Countess of Wessex’s String Orchestra in the Guards' Chapel, London.
2024 R.O.C. MND Orchestra /Symphonic Band 70 Anniversary Concert, in National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
•Represented wind ensemble music, Unforgettable Times from Gen. Fan, as MND 70th Anniversary.
2023 R.O.C. MND Symphonic Band Anniversary Concert, in Zhongli Arts Hall ( Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2023, Presenter)
• Composed wind ensemble music, Unforgettable Times from Gen. Fan, commemorating the 100th Birthday of General Fan.
2023 R.O.C. MND Symphony Orchestra Anniversary Concert, in National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) (Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2023, Presenter)
• Composed orchestra piece, The Bell of Piece for commemorating the 65th anniversary of the 823 Artillery Bombardment War (the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis) Victory.
R.O.C. Taiwan Military Songs: Piano Solo Selections received 2022 Honourable Mention Award of Archives Creative Value-Added Competition, National Archives Administration National Development Council
2022 Taoyuan Land Art Festival (Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2022, Music Arranger)
• Invited to arrange music for the art festival including orchestral music and vocal music
2022 Finalist-Wind Ensemble Piece Be In the Same Boat (“2021 Cheers Up! Taiwan!” Wind Music Composition Contest, for Pingtung Symphonic Band) presented in Pingtung Performing Arts Center
Classical FM97.7 Yu-Ju Small Talk (Taipei, Taiwan, 2022, Invited Speaker)
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shared personal music creation philosophy, learning experience, and application in the current service unit.
25th Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (Taipei, Taiwan, 2022, Co-Presenter)
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Researched the collection, interpretation, and re-creation of military songs of the Republic of China
25th Conference of Department of Applied Arts, National Defense University (Taipei, Taiwan, 2021, Presenter and Administrative Officer)
24th Conference of Military Social Science, National Defense University
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Planning for the Opening Ceremony
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designed the opening ceremony performance featuring electronic music –Solitude Effect, with a cello solo, and a piece of chamber music – Image from the East, adapted from Eastern ballads; gained great evaluation by combining music, narration, and visual media
23rd Conference of Military Art and Psychological Arms, National Defense University (Taipei, Taiwan, 2020, Presenter and Administrative Officer)
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Performed a poster presentation of the research result of "The Conflict and Integration of Collaboration: Summer Fight in Okinawa as an Example"
Heart Village 60th Anniversary x Four Four South Village Special Exhibition (Taipei, Taiwan, 2019, Exhibition Music Designer)
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Designed suitable music and sound effects to deliver unforgettable effects on time and on budget; designed the incidental music for both the exhibition and a game - Parkour Heart Village.
44th International Computer Music Conference (Daegu, Korea, 2018, Presenter)
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the electronic composition, Breath Steps was selected to be presented.
13th International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology Conference (Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2017, Presenter)
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the electronic (with Cello) composition, Solitude Effect, was selected to be presented and received an Honorable Mention (Young Composer, Pop Music Division)
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Original Musical Daughter of the Oceans by National Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2017, Music Designer)
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Composed and arranged 3 songs in Taiwanese with sentimental and dramatic melodies