Originally from Taiwan, Meng-Mei is a composer for film and multimedia. Her work includes various music genres and styles. Before she came to New York, Meng-Mei composed and arranged music for TV dramas. She has participated in over 30 TV series production. Her music within the TV series has been broadcast by many TV channels in Taiwan as well as in China such as Sanlih E-Television Inc., China Television company, Ltd., Taiwan Television Enterprise, Ltd., and Anhui Satellite TV. Meng-Mei is studying her second Masters degree in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at New York University with Sonny Kompanek.

 

Owl and Mouse

Kuo composed Owl and Mouse in 2014. It won the NYU symphony space competition. As an experienced classical music listener, Kuo shows a writing style that is highly influenced by those well-known piano concertos from some of the greatest composers in the history such as Chopin, Schumann and etc. The score calls for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, one trumpet, trombone, tuba, timpani, glockenspiel, xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, piano (four hands), harp, and strings. The duration of film is about five minutes.