ABOUT
Yi-Fan Chen is a multimedia composer from Taiwan, 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).
During the time at NYU, 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.
In recent years, Yi-Fan has expanded into the global game development space, composing for titles such as The Real Face of a VTuber, Cyber Paradise, Carsh, Dream of Things, and Elissa. Her music and the games she has collaborated on have been featured at major global showcases—among them GDC, London Game Festival, SXSW Sydney, Tokyo Game Show, BitSummit, ChinaJoy, and Taipei Game Show.
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.