Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Ms. Hsu is the recipient of numerous awards and honors for her compositional endeavors, including scholarships from the Chen Family Enterprise, Panchiao Credit Union, National Taiwan Academy of Art, Taipei Modern Women’s Foundation, Sampo Foundation, Yamaha Foundation, the Chiou Hai-Husi Foundation, Evan Braun Fellowship from The Curtis Institute of Music and C.P. Richardson Scholarships from Yale University. In addition, Ms. Hsu won first prize in the National Taiwan Academy of Art Composition competition for her Fantasia for Violin Solo & Orchestra and String Quartet, which were performed at the Taipei County Cultural Center. She also composed the music for the 1995 San Has Cultural Summer Festival. In the summers of 1992-95, she participated in the Chinese Composers Conference. In 1998, she won the Prism Quartet Student Commissioning Award and subsequently received commission from the group for a Saxophone Quartet “Contrast”. The next year, she won third prize in the Maxfield Parrish composition contest. In 2000, she was commissioned by the Composers from Curtis Chamber Ensemble for “The Last Invocation”. In 2001, she won the Renee B. Fisher Foundation Composer Award and later received a commission from that organization. In the summer of 2003, she was awarded a scholarship to study at the Fontainebleau Music Festival. Her “Shui Diao Ge To”, composed for the 2004 Milestones Festival received a 2005 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer’s Award and won the recording rights in Vol. 7 of ERMMedia’s critically acclaimed compact disc series “Masterworks of the New Era”. Her “Zhi” for violin and piano won the William Klenz Prize.