About
Yi-Fan Chen is a multimedia composer currently based in Los Angeles, who seeks to create music that delivers intriguing melodies, diverse timbres, and heartfelt power. She began by composing concert music at 11, which has led to most of her music being rooted in orchestral settings, while also being comfortable incorporating electronic synthesis and sampling. Her experience in scoring includes but is not limited to shorts, feature films, TV series, advertisements, and video games.
Yi-Fan loves to explore a variety of genres, especially when she can showcase her strength in writing tense and uneasy, or exotic and mysterious cues, like the one she collaborated with the director Chris Del Río Solorzano on the film Prey. This work made its debut on the 2023 NYU Steinhardt Film Scoring Composition Competition Winners Concert at Symphony Space in New York, and was selected as The Best Student Orchestral Score in the 2024 Garden State Film Festival (GSFF).
Recently, Yi-Fan was invited to be part of the jury team of the Student World Impact Film Festival (SWIFF), and was selected as the scholar of the Game Audio Network Guild, attended the GameSoundCon 2023 in LA.
Yi-Fan is particularly passionate and specializes in orchestral music. She loves to create all sorts of timbres and colors by experimenting with different instrument groupings. One of her orchestral works Just Tell Me Who It Was received the 2nd prize in The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York’s Emerging Composers Competition, and was selected as the runner-up in One Found Sound’s Emerging Composer Award.
Furthermore, Yi-Fan participated in numerous music events which include the JMH (Joy Music House) Score Production Workshop, the Young Artist Summer Program from the Curtis Institute of Music, the Composer Collaborative Project from New Music USA, and the Atlantic Music Festival.
Regarding professional experience, she is now the composer at Strike Audio and has interned in several places, which include Music and the Moving Image Conference XIX, NYU Screen Scoring Summer Workshops, and ForGood Sound Score Production Studio.
Recently, Yi-Fan graduated with a master's degree in Screen Scoring from New York University and is currently serving as Lead Composer at Bolero Game Studio, where she is developing the upcoming music platformer game KODA.