Although the composer, Hsueh-Yung Shen, would appear to be of Chinese extraction, he was born in the U.S. and was also trained here.  He is a highly decorated composer, not just in the U.S. but elsewhere as well.  Maestro Shen is a composer with a very interesting style.  He has all the capacities of the modern music world:  dissonance; unbalanced rhythm; even what seem at times like aleatoric textures.  Yet, he also has a deep love of melody and traditional harmonies.