Eddie Chia-Hao Hsu received his PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining MIM, he was an adjunct faculty member at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance, where he taught the courses World Music and Cultures and Chinese Music Ensemble. He has published and presented research on music, Indigeneity, and sustainability, and he has delivered public talks and invited lectures on the musical cultures of Asia and Oceania.
Hsu is also a dizi flute player and multi-instrumentalist. He earned his bachelor’s degree in dizi performance from the Department of Chinese Music at Tainan National University of the Arts. His performance experience encompasses a range of musical traditions and instruments, including the dizi and xiao flutes, maqam-based music on the nay end-blown flute, the Paiwan lalingedan nose flute, and Javanese gamelan. He has performed at various international events, including the 2014 International Accordion Festival and 2018 SXSW Music Festival. In 2016 and 2017, he lectured and performed at the National Academy of Performing Arts in Pakistan, supported by the U.S. Department of State and University of Texas at Austin.
His background as both an ethnomusicologist and performer continues to inform his curatorial work at MIM, where he is responsible for the museum’s Asia and Oceania collections and related exhibits.