Li-Chin Li

Li-Chin Li is a Taiwanese sheng soloist, composer, and interdisciplinary performer based in Paris. Her artistic practice spans contemporary music, improvisation, and experimental performance, combining virtuosic sheng performance, improvised composition, and physical movement. Through site-responsive approaches, she explores and expands the expressive possibilities of the instrument. In recent years, she has been active internationally as a soloist, collaborating with conductors including Shao-Chia Lü, Tung-Chieh Chuang, and Shu-Han Yang, as well as ensembles such as the Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Ensemble Cairn, Ensemble LINEA, Lapland Chamber Orchestra, and Trickster Orchestra. Her work has received coverage in international professional media, including Germany’s neue musikzeitung (nmz), Tagesspiegel, the classical and jazz magazine RONDO, Digital in Berlin, Italy’s Il Resto del Carlino and Gazzetta di Modena, and Radio France Internationale (RFI). She has also been invited to participate in international artistic residencies and research programs at institutions including the Royaumont Foundation, IRCAM – Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, GMEM – Centre National de Création Musicale, Cité internationale des arts in Paris, the French National Centre for Dance (CN D), Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Sweden, and the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) in New York.