CORA CHUNG

Cora (Yi-Huan) Chung is a composer and cellist from Taiwan. She began her classical music training at the age of four and has performed with orchestras like the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra (KSO) and the Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO).

She is an alumna of the prestigious Sundance Institute Film Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound and received an Honorary Mention for the 2020 Peer Raben Music Award at Soundtrack Cologne. In 2021, she was awarded a music grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and invited to the “Art of Practice” fellowship at Sundance and Marché du Film “Spot the Composer” program at Cannes Film Festival.

Cora was the selected composer for the CASA CINE Film and Music Writing Residency at Château de la Napoule in France (2023) and participated in the Composer Filmmaker Accelerator 2024 at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

She holds a degree in Music Composition for the Screen from Columbia College Chicago, supported by scholarships from Taiwan’s Ministry of Education.

Her music has been recorded at the Sound of Silent Film Festival in Chicago and at 20th Century Fox Studios. Cora is also a member of the Composer Diversity Collective (CDC), The Alliance for Women Film Composers (AWFC), and The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL).