Gene Hsu

As an international-award Winner, Gene is a singer-songwriter, draws attention to linguistic, historical and cultural significance of traditional languages in her research and music. She can sing songs in English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese. Furthermore, she wrote and sang English songs translated from ancient Chinese poems in her vocal performances, which is also part of her research. Besides her own original songs, Gene writes singable English lyrics from ancient and modern Chinese poems, and translates Mandarin and Cantonese songs into singable English songs. She is a researcher in Ethnomusicology and focuses on music and translation/interpreting, in particular, singability of translated songs between different language pairs. Gene’s performance itself demonstrates cultural and linguistic diversity of this world. She can bring non-East Asian people with enjoyable vocal performance, in which Gene can also showcase the genuine traditional Chinese culture.