Yi-Fan Chen is a composer and pianist from Taiwan, who seeks to create music that delivers intriguing melodies, heartfelt power, and thought-provoking ideas. Her music, rooted in the Classical tradition, explores intersections in literature, contemporary arts, and multimedia. Yi-Fan's orchestral work Just Tell Me Who It Was was selected as the runner-up in One Found Sound’s 2022 Emerging Composer Award, and received the 2nd prize in The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York’s Emerging Composers Competition. Recently, as the winner of the 2023 NYU Steinhardt Film Scoring Composition Competition, Yi-Fan collaborated with Director Chris Del Río Solorzano on the film Fort Hamilton Parkway and had the work premiered at Symphony Space by NYU Symphony Orchestra in New York. Furthermore, she participated in numerous music events which include the Young Artist Summer Program from the Curtis Institute of Music, the Composer Collaborative Project from New Music USA, and the Atlantic Music Festival. Currently, Yi-Fan is enrolled in a master’s degree in Screen Scoring at New York University studying with Professor John Kaefer.