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Stephen Yip was born in Hong Kong and currently resides in the US. He received his D.M.A from Rice University and B.F.A from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. His mentors include Wing-fai Law, Clarence Mak, Arthur Gottschalk and Ellsworth Milburn. Past residencies include the Aspen Music Festival, Asian Composers' League, Music X, June in Buffalo, IMPULS Ensemble Akademie, California E.A.R. Unit Composer Seminar, the 13th International Summer Program, Czech Republic, and Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Yip's works have been performed in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Israel, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Korea, Hong Kong, China, and Philippines. He has received several composition prizes, including the Haifa International Composition Prize, First International EPICMUSIC Composition Prize, Italy, International Biennial composition competition, the Debussy Trio Music Foundation, Molinari Quartet's Third International Composition Competition, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Emerging, the ALEA III composition Competition and the fourth NACUSA Texas Composition Competition. Yip is a member of the SCI, NACUSA, and ASCAP. Currently, he serves music faculty at Houston Community College.

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