Chen Mingchang 1956.
Native of Beitou, Taiwan
He is a Taiwanese songwriter, composer, music producer, guitarist, and yueqin player.
He’s been writing songs for 30 years and has released more than 20 albums and more than 100 songs.
When Chen Mingchang was in his twenties, he began to think about what creativity rooted in the land really meant and decided to give up Western musical thinking and explore Taiwanese music. He incorporated its song structures and chord forms into modern music.
International Awards:
1986 Dust in the Wind – Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Best Film Score, Festival des Three Continents, Nantes, France)
1993 The Puppetmaster – Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Georges Delerue Prize for Best Music, Flanders International Film Festival Ghent, Belgium)
1994 Maboroshi No Hikari – Director: Koreeda Hirokazu (Best Music, Mainichi Film Festival, Japan)
1999 March of Happiness – Director: Lin Jhengsheng (Best Music, Asia-Pacific Film Festival)