Wang Lu

Composer Wang Lu writes music that naturally reflects urban environmental sounds, linguistic intonation and contours, traditional Chinese music, and freely improvised practices. Wang Lu’s works have been performed internationally, by ensembles including the Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW, Minnesota Orchestra among others. She received the Berlin Prize in Music Composition, Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond Award in Music from American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow. Her full-length chamber opera The Beekeeper was presented by the Chicago Opera Theatre and her upcoming 22-23 season includes commissions from the New York Philharmonic and Seattle Modern Orchestra. Wang Lu’s portrait albums Urban Inventory (2018), and An Atlas of Time (2020) were released to critical acclaim. She is an associate professor of music at Brown University.