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S’yo is a Taiwanese-Dutch pianist, composer and arranger who is eager to present an accessible medium that immerses the audience in a complex range of human emotions. His music has the seamless openness created by the context of modern classical and contemporary jazz that brings the balance between improvisation and composition while transforming two musical languages. It does not eliminate the viewer but invites Modernism in a tangible way.
S'yo lives and works between Taiwan and The Netherlands. As an arranger, he has worked with Tijn Wybenga, Reinier Baas, David Kweksilber, Theo Bleckmann, Alex Sipiagin; Young Jazz Society, NSJO, NSBB, USBB, and Metropole Orchestra. As a composer, S'yo received 56th Downbeat Magazine Student Music Award in the composition category, and two SONIC awards powered by the International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers in 2019 and 2022. Since 2023 September, S’yo joined Codarts Composition Interfaculty and teaches Jazz composition at Codarts University of the Arts. |
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Education
National Taiwan Normal University (Classical Piano, BA ) Koninklijke Conservatorium Den Haag (Jazz Piano, BA) Conservatorium van Amsterdam (Jazz Arrangement, BA) Codarts Conservatorium Rotterdam ( Jazz Piano & Composition, MA) Press 2021 "Vangt en bevrijdt emoties in geluiden en poëzie” De Volkskrant 2019 “The music that creates the future of jazz” ISJAC 2019 4 stars “An intriguing album” Jazzism Magazine 2017 “Lonely Country” is a great epic“ Jazzflits Magazine Awards & Nominations 2023 - Golden. Indie Music Award Best Jazz Album (Taiwan) 2023 - Nominated for Best Album & Best Producer at Golden Melody Award (Taiwanese Grammy) 2022 - SONIC Awards by ISJAC (International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers, U.S) 2022 - 56th DownBeat Composition Music Award 2020 - Nomination for PAD Prize_the best music for dance. (Spain) 2019 - Sonic Awards by ISJAC 2019 - Finalist of Jazz Junior Poland 2017 - Nomination for Keep an Eye The Record (NL) 2014 - Nomination for Graz Comp (AU) Training 2022 Music - ISJAC symposium - U.S. 2021 Music - I solistic Composer Lab with Martijn Padding - I Solisti, BE 2020 Music&Dance - Multidisciplinary Improvisation - Cloud Gate - Taiwan 2020 Dance - Body Detour NDT - Nederlands Dans Theater in Taiwan 2019 Mime - Neutral Mask - MAPA, NL 2019 Music - ISJAC symposium - U.S. 2018 Music - International Jazz Platform, Poland 2016 Mime - Dutch Moving Academy for Performing Art, NL 2017 Music - Metropole Orkest Arranger Workshop, NL 2017 Music - Dutch Impro. Academy, NL 2015 Music - Copenhagen Jazz Composition Comp, DM |
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