Jui-Ying Huang  
黃芮盈

Composer, Performer, Improviser

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For inquiries or scores, please email me: raying109@gmail.com (or go to MENU: Contact)

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Military is not my topic—it is my structure, my grammar.
I don’t write about the army; I write through the lens it has given me. 

The human rhythmic discipline, the layered simplicity, and the ‘freedom’ marching within music…

The tension of the paradox of two: orders and spontaneity/ oppression and release —that’s how I compose.

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Jui-Ying Huang (also Ray Huang), comes from Taichung City, Taiwan. She is a composer, improviser (Taiwanese nose flute player and pianist) influenced by military music, Asian cultures, and film music. Her work is described as: 'Sincerely moving, genuine and rich in musicality.‘ She is the recipient of the WASBE (World Association for Symphonic Bands & Ensembles) 21st Warren Benson International Composition Contest—Category III: Breakthrough Award 2026.

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After graduating from National Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and National Defence University (Taipei, Taiwan), she is currently pursuing her music PhD at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (London, UK) and seeks to express her lively rhythm and tension with different forms of musical physicality, improvisation, military abstraction, and embodied listening. She works with materials from military, social, and bodily rituals — not as themes, but as internalised grammars. Her music seeks to find a poetic logic within structures shaped by the tension of control and freedom.

 

Having spent years immersed in Paiwan culture—one of the Indigenous peoples of Taiwan—she also draws profound inspiration from traditional Taiwanese and related aboriginal music. In particular, she is captivated by the Lalingedan (Taiwanese double-pipe nose flute, which means 'breath of life’), a unique instrument invented by the Paiwan people.
Her strong motivation is to provide feedback to individuals and the world, those who are creating actual and priceless art.

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