Dr. Yuxin Ouyang

Dr. Yuxin Ouyang enjoys composing in a variety of musical styles. Her writing spans orchestra, chamber music, opera, theater, sound installation, and experimental improvisation. She has worked with renowned ensembles and musicians such as Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Deviate Septet, Jack Quartet, Wu Man and Kirill Gerstein. Ouyang’s music has been performed in concert halls in China and the U.S., including the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and the He Lvting Concert Hall in Shanghai.

Dr. Ouyang received her bachelor’s degree in music composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and master’s degree in music composition from Rice University. In May 2020, she received her PhD in music composition from Duke University. During her undergraduate years at Oberlin Conservatory, she taught music composition to non-major students. While pursuing her master’s degree, she received a fellowship and was selected to instruct music classes in the preparatory program affiliated with the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. For two years, she taught courses such as music theory and aural skills to students aged six to sixteen. During her PhD studies at Duke University, she was a teaching assistant for several undergraduate-level music classes over two years and instructed music lab sessions for two semesters.

Dr. Ouyang held a Duke University Graduate Fellowship from 2015 to 2020. She held a Duke University Graduate Summer Research Fellowship in 2016 and 2017, the 2018 Michael Robison Memorial Summer Fellowship, and the Julian Price Graduate Fellowship from 2019 to 2020. Her opera Trajectory was awarded third prize of the American Prize competition in 2019. She was a recipient of the Michael P. Hammond Preparatory Program Brown Foundation Fellowship at Rice University from 2013 to 2015. She was also awarded the Walter E. Aschaffenburg Prize by Oberlin Conservatory in 2009.