Li Shih-Yang / Music Creator and Performing Artist

-Honorable mention for Best New Release by New York City Jazz Record
-Winner of the 6th Golden Indie Music Award for "Best Instrumentalist"
-Winner of the 7th Golden Indie Music Award for "Best Jazz Single"

Li Shih-Yang is a Taiwanese pianist who has long been dedicated to improvisational performance. He has collaborated with artists from various fields, including painting, dance, theater, and multimedia. In 2010, he founded the improvisational music group "KATTOYIM". Both he and his group have won multiple Golden Indie Music Awards and Traditional Arts Golden Melody Awards and have been invited to perform worldwide.

In 2015, together with Nicole Lee, he co-founded the biennial "Taiwan International Improvised Music Festival", which has successfully completed four editions. In 2016, he co-curated "Chaos and Body Sound" with Chen Wu-Kang, the artistic director of HORSE Dance Theatre. In 2018, he was selected as an artist for the "South Beyond South — South-Link Art Project" and the "Adam Project 2 — Artist Lab" residency program. In 2019, he became an artist-in-residence for the "Forest People — Taroko Art Residency III", a participant in the 15th Wanderer Project, and was named an Outstanding Alumnus of Tainan National University of the Arts in 2021. In 2022, he was awarded the Asia Cultural Council Fellowship (New York Grant Program).