 "Grateful Heart", "Never Turning Back", "Same Moonlight".....
He had produced many allbums for artists like Julie Su Rui, Tracy Huang, Dave Wong, Chang Yu-Sheng, A-Mei, and the Little Tigers. 
"Forever Blue Sky" and "Bonjour, My Love" won The Golden Tripod Award's Best Arrangement and Album of the Year awards.
"Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?" and "The Last Night of Madam Chin" won The Golden Horse Film Festival Awards' Best Original Film Score and Best Original Film Song.
He had been nominated for The Golden Melody Awards in 9 catagories - won Best Arrangement and The Special Contribution Award. 
You might have heard this name before and never knew who he was, but you've definitely heard his songs.
He is…Chen Chih-Yuan……

Chen Chih-Yuan

Taipei Music Center is hub of inspiration where artists and talents deliver extraordinary performances. It not only provides industry professionals with an arena to showcase their works but bestows upon young creators for the chance to engage with arts through music. It is also a sanctuary for music lovers to own ultimate live experiences. Here music enthusiasts are gathered at a variety of networking events to connect, to create, to interact, and to reach further and dream bigger. 

Every song written is a result of the artist‘s desire for musical expressions, and each moment the listeners' hearts resonate with the melody triggers the burst of imagination and joy. 

Audiences and performers visiting TMC are expected to receive content, and can further spread such warmth and joy. The uniqueness of musical aesthetics is to thrive and flourish, so as to bring beauty and blessing to the world. 

TMC wishes to bridge the gap between generations and to lead the pop music industry in the Chinese-speaking region. We aim to open up an abundant industry ecosystem and support talented professionals by establishing a brand new stage to showcase their potentials.

Taipei Music Center

Hipster Chen Chih-Yuan

Songs That Are Buried in Your Heart 

Time and Space Travel of the Mad Scientist

1950–1980：From Birth to the Prime of the Folk Song Era 

1981–1987：The Founding of the UFO Group (Taiwan) and the Dawn of Taiwan’s Popular Music 

1988–1995：UFO Idles in Full Bloom—The Rapid Growing Period of Taiwan’s Popular Music 

1996–2011：Forward Music Era—The Peak of Taiwan’s Popular Music and Its Transformation Period 

Pop music hit record list

Memory record store 

1980s： Popular music took off

Record album by Louise Tsuei, 1985

Wang Chih-Lei, full score, 1985

1985, Chyi Yu: Letter to Mr. Chen, Manuscript of “Life as a Dream” by Sanmao.

Record album by Su Rui, 1985

Completion of a song 

Mobile Studio 

Recording Studio of Golden Songs 

The Last Night

Never Turning Back

The Same Moonlight

Music created by open-reel recording

1990s：Pioneer of Working from Home 

Director Roger Chen 

Sense of Ritual in Life 

Photo of Train  & Travel

Roger&mimi

Wine with Friends

Installation arts of Chen  Chin-Yuan's wife, Mimi Chen Juo-Kuei

Life Philosophy of a Master 

Waves of the Times 

「If one day I was gone, the trees will stay.」 

Who was Chen Chih-Yuan? Most people do not recognize this name when they hear it. This name has appeared on over a thousand albums since the folk song era. In the 1980s, the era when he set the record for the number of arrangements by one person, more than half of the top 30 hits featured his musical arrangements. His acute sense of music, inexhaustible creativity, and grand arrangement concepts allowed him to compose hundreds of songs in over 30 years and to arrange possibly nearly 10,000 pieces of music.

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