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  • March 6, 2024: New piano concertino " Arirang Fantasy" will be premiered at Sejong Art Hall in Seoul, commissioned by Prof. Haewon Chang.

  • March 22, 2024:"Lady Malan" for guitar and double bass has been selected to the 2024 ASTA (American String Teachers Association) National conference New Music Reading Session by Women Composers in Kentucky.

  • May, 2024: One minute piece "Fluba" for flute and tuba will be premiered and recorded by Phase Music.

  • June 18, 19, 2024: New suite "Servant of Lord" for Cello quartet and guitar will be premiered by Hotshot Cello Choir and Japan guitarist Daisuke Suzuki at Weiwuying Art Center in Kaohsiung and National Taichung Theater.

  • July, 2024:"Arirang Fantasy" for piano concertino will be performed in 2024 AIPAF (Asia International Piano Academy & Festival with Competition), South Korea.

  • August, 2024: Some pieces arrangements commissioned and performed by NTSO (National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra) in Thailand.

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  • September, 2023: "Guitar Concerto No.1" received The Akademia Music Award in the category of classical song, award winner.

  • July 30 - August 5, 2023: Selected chamber music intrduced by Dr. Olivia Tsai at the "OPUS 21st Annual Chamber Music Camp" in North Central College, Naperville, IL.

  • July 19 - July 22, 2023: Be invited as a guest artist at 2023 AIPAF (Asia International Piano Academy & Festival with Competition. Piano quintet "Due Due Dong" has been premiered by the piano society of Korea at Ewon Cultural Institute.

  • August 27, 2022: Selected movements of the "Wind City Symphonic Poem" for Chinese Orchestra will be premiered by Hsinchu City Youth Chinese Orchestra with Chiang-Pin Liu conducting at the "Rising Winds" 2022 Presidential Office Concert at Hsinchu Performing Arts Center.

  • August 14, 2022: "Dance of Garden Eel" for cello quartet and 6 Hakka folksong arrangements for soprano and cello quartet will be premiered by Hotshot Cello Choir at the Black Box in the National Taichung Theater.

  • May 27, 2022: "Nuwa" for 10 percussionists will be world-premiered by Ju Percussion Groupat the National Concert Hall, Taipei. Two more performances on June 03 at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) concert hall and June 04 at the grand theater of the National Taichung Theater.

  • December 22, 2021: "Blooming Flowers" for vibraphone solo will be world-premiered by percussionist Mizuki Aita at the concert hall of Omi-Gakudo, Tokyo, Japan.

  • November 13, 2021: "Musical Landscape of Tainan" for wind band has been world-premiered at the opening concert at the festival of 2021 Asia and Pacific Band Director's Assoication by Tainan Symphonic Band with Lian-Chang Kuo conducting.

  • June12, 2021: "Hope" for piano, erhu, flute will be premiered at the recital hall in the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) by PEF Trio (Gao Yunyao, Wang Ying-Chieh, Cheng Yutai)(CANCEL).

  • May 22, 2021: "Nuwa" for 10 percussionists will be world-premiered at the grand theater of the National Taichung Theater by Ju Percussion Group. Two more performances on May 23 at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) concert hall and May 27 at the National Concert Hall, Taipei. (CANCEL)

  • February 21, 2021: Musical Landscape of Tainan" for wind band will be premiered at Metropolitan Hall by Taipei Civic Symphonic Band with Lian-Chang Kuo conducting.

  • February 3, 2021: "Vivid Formosa" for string quartet will be broadcasted at 7:00 am -10:00am on Classicial Discoveries NJ Radio Station (WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM)

  • December 11, 2020: Arrangement "Obsession, A Hakka Caprice" for violin and orchestra was commissioned and world-premiered by violinist Cho Liang Lin and NTSO with Madeline Tsai conducting at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying).

  • November 7, 2020: "Nice Dy" for flute, harp, cello, piano and jazz drum was commissioned and world-premiered by flutist Isis Ma and other musicians at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying).

  • October 17, 2020: In Taiwan Culture Day, Ssu-Yu Huang's "Sound from the Earth," for orchestra was commissioned and world-premiered by National Taiwan Synphony Orchestra with Yeh Cheng-Te conducting in Wufeng, Taichung.

  • August, 2020: Ssu-Yu's "Vivid Formosa" for string quartet was recorded by ExQuartet and released on Phasma Music label.

  • April 6, 2020: Ssu-Yu's "Grand Music of Tang" 24-piece guitar solo suite was recorded by Czech guitarist Dr. Josef Mazan. The album is availble at Amazon and Apple.

  • September 20, 2019: Ssu-Yu's woodwind quintet "Fantasy Journey" was world-premiered by the Yang-Min Junior Woodwind Quintet at the Kaohsiung Music Hall.

  • September 1, 2019: Two Ssu-Yu's cello quartets "Vivid Formosa" and "Three Scenaries of Taiwan" were world-premiered by the Hotshot Cello Choir at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying).

  • July, 2019: Ssu-Yu's flute solo "Tweet Tweet Birds," performed by Polish flutist Iwona Glinka, was included in a CD produced by Phasma Music.

  • June 30, 2019: Ssu-Yu's 24-piece guitar solo suite "Grand Music of Tang" has been recorded and released on YouTube by Czech guitarist Dr. Josef Mazan.

  • May 27, 2019: Ssu-Yu was interviewed by Wind Band Press of Japan.

  • May 11-18, 2019: Ssu-Yu's ensemble piece "Hope" for erhu, flute and piano was performed by Neo-Classic Chamber Ensemble, during the 58th Venice Biennale, at Chiesa di San Giovanni di Malta, Venice.

  • Apr 25, 2019: Ssu-Yu's orchestra piece “Knot” Mov. IV “Reborn” has been selected as a finalist at 2019 Artemis Film Festival “Women Powered Music".

  • March 22, 2019: Ssu-Yu's "Guitar Concerto No. 1 - Remembrance of Hometown" was released in a PARMA Recordings CD "Beneath the Tide".

  • February 10, 2019: Ssu-Yu's piano solo "Scourge" - inspired by Picasso's famous painting "Guernica" - has been selected by NORTH/SOUTH CONSONANCE’s Call for Score for performance and release on CD.This piece will be performed by pianist Max Lifchitz at National Opera Center’s Placido Domingo Hall, New York, NY.

  • October 13, 2018: Ssu-Yu's orchestra piece "Heritage of Hakka" was world-premiered at the opening ceremony of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), performed by the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra and the Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra with Wen-Pin Chien conducting.

  • July 1, 2018: Ssu-Yu's "Guitar Concerto No. 1 - Remembrance of Hometown" was recorded and produced by PARMA Recordings in Croatia, performed by guitarist Pedro Ribeiro Rodrigues and the Croatian Chamber Orchestra with Miran Vaupotić conducting.