Wang Lu (composer)

Wang Lu (born 1982) is a Chinese composer. She is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and has released two solo albums. She is an assistant professor of music at Brown University. Biography Wang Lu was born in 1982 in Xi’an. Her family was experienced in music, before obtaining her DMA from Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2012. She studied composition with Lerdahl, Chou Wen-chung, George E. Lewis, and Tristan Murail. In 2015, she started working at Brown University as an assistant professor of music, teaching courses in music theory and composition. She released two solo albums through New Focus Recordings: Urban Inventory (2018) and An Atlas of Time (2020). In October 2019, her piece Code Switch premiered during the opening night of the 22nd season of Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW. In January 2021, Michael Andor Brodeur named her in his 21 for ‘21 series for The Washington Post, calling her second album “one of my favorite albums of the weird, weird year”. In 2022, she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship. In January 2023, the New York Philharmonic premiered her piece “Surge”; Joshua Barone of the New York Times said it “has the elements of an enormous score skillfully