(Central News Agency reporter Zhou Shihui’s special report from San Francisco on the 1st)
The epidemic has affected the job market for new Americans this year. Taiwan’s dulcimer performer and composer Hui-Ju Hannah Hsieh broke through the predicament and won three soundtrack awards at the Tagore International Film Festival in India with her composition ,also her pop song won the American Track Music Award.

​（中央社記者周世惠舊金山1日專電）

​疫情影響今年美國社會新鮮人的就業市場，留美台灣揚琴演奏和作曲者謝惠如突破困境，以創作曲拿下印度泰戈爾國際電影節3個配樂獎項，另以流行歌曲獲美國曲目音樂獎。

"CHASE" is the soundtrack that Hui-Ju Hannah Hsieh won the "Tagore International Film Festival" Best Film Score Award in April. The word "chasing" also symbolizes the life course of her encounter with piano and dulcimer at the age of 30.

「追逐」（CHASE）是謝惠如（Hui-Ju Hannah Hsieh）4月份獲得「泰戈爾國際電影節」（Tagore International Film Festival）最佳電影配樂獎的原創曲目。「追逐」這兩字，也象徵30歲的她與鋼琴、揚琴相遇的生命歷程。

​"I want to introduce the dulcimer to the people those from the Western world and integrate it into music production, to interpret the beauty of Eastern and Western music. " Hui-Ju Hannah Hsieh told the Central News Agency reporter that the mainstream of Chinese music is the erhu and the pipa, and the dulcimer is not a well-known musical instrument for most of the people. Hsieh learns the piano firstly, and dulcimer "looked for" her when she was 10 years old, then she started two life of practicing piano and dulcimer.

「想介紹西方世界的人們認識揚琴這個樂器，將揚琴融入樂曲製作，演繹東方與西洋音樂之美。」謝惠如告訴中央社記者，國樂的主流是二胡和琵琶，揚琴是較冷門的演奏樂器，她原本學鋼琴，10歲時揚琴「找」上她，開始了兩種練琴的人生。

She said: "Even I don't know where I will go, it is an incomprehensible persistence that leads me slowly."

她說：「即使不知道自己到底會走到哪一步，但就是一種莫名的堅持，慢慢帶領著我。」

She grew up in Miaoli and was educated in Taiwan. After graduating from the Chinese Music Department of Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, she went to Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA to obtain a master's degree of music production for visual media. Hannah Hsieh graduated at the end of last year and soon encountered the COVID-19 disease (COVID-19, Wuhan pneumonia). The outbreak of the epidemic disrupted  and rewrote her plan to stay in the United States for looking for job and creation.

​成長於苗栗、在台灣受教育，文化大學中國音樂系畢業後到舊金山藝術大學取得視覺媒體音樂製作碩士，謝惠如在去年底畢業，沒多久旋即遇到2019冠狀病毒疾病（COVID-19，武漢肺炎）疫情爆發，改寫了她原以為會留在美國就業與創作的計畫。

According to statistics, 4 million college students in the United States are about to graduate this month, and graduate students and international students have entered the tight internship and job market. In the recent months since the city’s shelter in place order was announced, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Stastistics (U.S. Bureau of Labor Stastistics) has announced more than 26 million new unemployed people, and the unemployment rate in March reached 4.4%.

根據統計，這個月美國有400萬大學生即將畢業，連同研究生、國際生都進入了緊張的實習與就業市場。在軟封城令宣布近月來，美國勞工統計局（U.S. Bureau of Labor Stastistics）公布超過2600萬的新增失業人口，更新至3月份的失業率達4.4%。

There are lots of Taiwanese students returning to their hometown due to the epidemic. Hannah Hsieh's graduation expection is that she can maintain flexibility and using her creativity to find new directions in the future. Even if the epidemic turns the world upside down, there will be a bright future.

因為疫情而返回故鄉的台灣留學生不在少數，謝惠如給自己的畢業期許是保持彈性，用一點創意找到未來的新方向，就算疫情把世界搞得天翻地覆之際，也有光明面。

The popular song, "Counterproductive" which is composed  and produced by Hannah Hsieh personally , and won the "The Tracks Music Awards" in Los Angeles, USA in March. This is her first time to cooperate with the singer " Di Hong" who is a female singer from Shanghai. The single will be officially released on major music streaming platforms in mid-May.

謝惠如親自擔任詞曲創作與製作的流行歌曲「事與願違」，獲得3月份美國洛杉磯的「曲目音樂獎」（The Tracks Music Awards），她第一次與來自上海的90後（1990年代出生）女歌手洪迪（Di Hong）合作，單曲5月中將正式發行於各大音樂串流平台。

She said that she has been touched deeply by the soundtrack "Playing Love" which is composing by the Italian master composer, Ennio Morricone in the movie "1900 ". She's finally found the direction that's what she wants and decided to go to study film music in the U.S.

她說，曾經被電影「海上鋼琴師」義大利電影配樂大師莫利科內（Ennio Morricone）的作品「逢場作戲」（Playing Love）感動到無法自拔，內心澎湃不已，自覺電影配樂是她要走的路，因此決定出國進修。

She has used the dulcimer to perform the different styles of music, also composed the music by using the dulcimer into her musical composition. Starting from participating in competitions on campus in the United States, she won scholarships with the dulcimer, and then her music works were shortlisted and won awards at international film festivals, so that she gradually increased her confidence. However, there are still lots of difficulties to overcome because "Music production in the film industry needs to have more connections to getting opportunities to discuss cooperation."

​她使用揚琴表演不同樂風的作品，並用揚琴創作，從參加美國校園內的比賽開始，以揚琴贏得獎學金，接著音樂作品在大大小小的國際電影節入圍、得獎，讓她慢慢增加信心，但仍有要克服的困難，因為「電影產業的音樂製作很需要人脈和機會才能談合作」。

In recent years, Hannah Hsieh has won awards include the "American Golden Picture International Film Festival", "Los Angeles CineFest", and "Buenos Aires International Film Festival", and "European Cinefest GOLDEN NIKA", etc.

近年謝惠如獲得肯定的獎項包括「美國金像獎國際電影節」（American Golden Picture International Film Festival）、「洛杉磯電影節」（Los Angeles CineFest）、「布宜諾斯艾利斯國際電影節」（Buenos Aires International Film Festival）和「歐洲電影節金妮卡」（European Cinefest GOLDEN NIKA）等。

Music and art creators have a sharp decline in job opportunities in this epidemic. Hannah Hsieh said that she will starts to realize the "importance of saving money" and fine-tune her career expectations. The world is quite huge that we can create the arts everywhere. "From playing the dulcimer to composing music, I am still on the road of music."

音樂和藝術創作者在這波疫情的工作機會銳減，謝惠如說，務實體會到「認真存錢的重要性」，同時微調自己的職涯期許，世界之大，到處可以創作，「攜伴著揚琴演奏到音樂作曲，依舊走在音樂的道路上」。
（編輯：馮昭）1090502