Wang Lu
Wang Lu writes music that reflects urban environmental sounds, linguistic intonation and contours, traditional Chinese music, and freely improvised practices.
Wang Lu is an Associate Professor of Music at Brown University and her works have been performed internationally by ensembles including the Ensemble Modern, the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera among others. She received the Berlin Prize in Music Composition from the American Academy in Berlin, Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond Award in Music from American Academy of Arts and Letters, Koussevitzky Award from the Library of Congress, Fromm Commission from Harvard University and was a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow. Wang Lu’s portrait albums Urban Inventory (2018), and An Atlas of Time (2020) were released to critical acclaim.
She was recently awarded a 2023-2024 Toulmin Fellowship to create a new work in collaboration with choreographer Madeline Hollander, to premiere at National Sawdust on May 13, 2024.
Performances and Details
Featured Works
Surge - 6 min, for orchestra. Commissioned by the NY Philharmonic.
Fathertongue - 6 min, for orchestra
Wailing - for large orchestra. Premiered by the Minnesota Symphony.
Cloud Intimacy - 10 min, for chamber ensemble and electronics.
Backstory - 7 min, for large mixed ensemble (16 musicians)
Cross Around - 13 min, for large ensemble
The Nothing Man and Other Tales - for soprano and ensemble
Wave Field - 4 min, for piano quintet
A-PPA-Aratus - 24 min, for two percussionists and two pianists