2020 - Nomination for PAD Prize_the best music for dance. 2019 - Winner of Sonic Awards by ISJAC . (International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers) 2018 - Opening Concert at Tilburg Make it Jazz Festival broadcasted by NTR. 2017 - Keep an Eye The Records Award Nomination, performed at Bimhuis, Amsterdam. - Producer of CinemAsia Festival Opening Music Act. - S’yo Fang Octet at So What’s Next Jazz Festival Eindhoven, NL. - Collaborated with Grammy winner Vince Mendoza, and remarkable Metropole Orkest 2014 - Best Composer Nomination at Graz-Comp-2014
S'Yo Fang is a musician working across the context of modern classical and contemporary jazz.
As a composer, and arranger, S'yo 's works has been collaborated, commissioned, or presented with(by) soloist, ensemble, dance theater and institution such as: David Kweksilber, Metropole Orchestra, NSJO, Codarts Contemporary Big Band, CVA Large ensemble, Plugged Live Show, SBBN, Danza Mobile, Incubo, National Culture Art Fund Taiwan, Amsterdam CinemAsia Festival, and Rotterdam Queer Art Evening; As a pianist in jazz, he works on own project S'Yo Fang Group, Emilio Acoustic Band, Naftule. Moreover, S'yo performs new music composed by contemporary composers. As a bandleader in S'yo Fang Group, he is known to combine contemporary jazz as well as modern classical music by the concepts which frequently based on seamless connection between written music and improvisation.
Born in Taiwan, S'yo completed Bachelor degrees in the area of Classical Piano at National Taiwan Normal University, in the area of Jazz Piano at Royal Conservatory of Den Haag, and he received double Master degrees in Composition & Jazz Piano at Rotterdam Conservatorium; currently lives and works between Taipei and Amsterdam.