Jung-Yi Alice
Daugherty

Jung-Yi is an award-winning flutist currently working in the Northeastern US and living in Royalston, Massachusetts. Born in Taipei, Taiwan near Yaoming Mountain, Jung-Yi has won first prize in several international competitions including the Taipei Music Competition, the Jui-Shin Music Competition and the Sun Yat-Sen University Concerto Competition. Additionally, she was a finalist in the 2009 Koussevitzky Young Artist Award and a Prize Winner of the 2011 Alexander & Buono International Flute Competition.

Jung-Yi’s musical abilities allowed her to earn a scholarship to attend the National Sun Yat-Sen University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree and was Principal Flute of the orchestra for four consecutive years. Ms. Hsieh later earned a Master of Music Degree and Professional Studies Diploma from Mannes College the New School for Music in New York City where she received a scholarship and studied with Judith Mendenhall, Principal Flute of the American Ballet Theater.

While in Taiwan, Jung-Yi recorded music on some children’s books, and more recently has played flute for the cartoon Dora the Explorer and performed on Broadway in New York City in the production of Wicked. She now plays regularly with the Massachusetts Symphony with her husband Scott Daugherty.