Yu-Peng Chen
Composer from China1984, January 15th in Changsha -
He first made his name as a film and television composer, co-writing the score of The Last Tycoon (2012) with Chan Kwong-wing, which earned a nomination for Best Original Film Score at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and winning the Golden Deer Award for Best Original Music Score at the Changchun Film Festival for The Founding of an Army (2017). He also scored The House That Never Dies and co-scored The Captain (2019).
From 2019 to 2023 he led the music production of the video game Genshin Impact at HOYO-MiX, the in-house studio of miHoYo, composing and co-composing a large body of soundtrack albums whose blend of Western symphonic writing with traditional Chinese instruments brought him worldwide recognition. He left HOYO-MiX in 2023 to pursue independent projects, releasing the solo album FANTASYLAND in 2024.
In 2025 he signed with Deutsche Grammophon, becoming the first Chinese composer on the label. His first album for DG, The Poem of Life (2026), is a twelve-movement symphonic suite for piano and orchestra depicting the stages of life, recorded by the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra under Zhang Liang with Chen himself as piano soloist and guests including Daniel Hope, Avi Avital and Philipp Schupelius. Source: Rondo DB
| Usual Name | Yu-Peng Chen |
| Alternative Spellings | Chen Yupeng, Chen Zhiyi, 陈宇鹏, 陈致逸 |
| On Wikipedia | Chen_Yupeng |
| Links | Wikipedia , Deutsche Grammophon Profile |
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