Yuwen is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts, where she studied jazz piano, theory and composition. While at Berklee, Yuwen was also a recipient of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Award for jazz composition.
Since returning to Taiwan, Yuwen has participated in many concerts, festivals, recordings and educational activities, and has performed in Hong Kong, Macao, Dubai, and Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2005.
In addition to regular performances of her own compositions with jazz ensembles, Yuwen also leads a unique ensemble “The Yuwen Peng Jazztet “, which is working on a variety of genre-crossing projects, particularly involving the combination of jazz with traditional Chinese music. Under Yuwen’s musical direction, the group has gone on to perform at a series of major venues in the past years, including sets at the 2005 Taichung Jazz Festival and on the “Oriental Avant-garde” program at the 7th Taipei Arts Festival, and has released its first album “Sizhukong” in March 2007.