Works performed by Earplay:

The flower mantis

Winner of the 2022 BMI Student Composer Award (William Schuman Prize) and ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Chengjin Koh is a Singaporean composer, Yang Qin and violin performer currently based in New York. Her music is eclectic and diverse in personalities. As a Chinese and Western trained musician, her works incorporate various influences from these worlds and reflect her passionate enthusiasm in unifying colorful music idioms.

Recently, her work Before Daybreak was premiered at the semifinal rounds of the 2022 Singapore International Violin Competition as the commissioned piece, and her interdisciplinary work Mountain of Echoing Halls for yangqin and the Ohio-based Verona Quartet and dance, commissioned by Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, was premiered at their centennial celebrations Spring 2023.

Chengjin is a proficient yangqin musician who won the Singapore Chinese Music Competition with a solo debut with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra. She was a Teaching Fellow for Juilliard's Music Advancement Program (Composition) for two years and its Evening Division (Music Theory). She is a member of the Composers' Society of Singapore (CSS) and is developing her musical, research and educational interests as a MacCracken Ph.D. Fellow and Teaching Assistant at New York University (College of Arts and Science).

Her website is kohchengjin.com.