Wang Lu | |
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![]() At Gaudeamus Muziekweek in 2010 | |
Born | 1982 (age 42–43) Xi'an, China |
Occupation | Composer |
Spouse | Anthony Cheung |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2014) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Flowing Waters and the Flow of Time: Guan Pinghu's Interpretation of Flowing Waters (2012) |
Doctoral advisor | Fred Lerdahl |
Musical career | |
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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.
Wang Lu was born in 1982 in Xi'an. [3] Her family was experienced in music, [4] with her father involved in Beijing opera. [5] Originally interested in singing, she later switched to playing piano. [6] She studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, obtaining an undergraduate degree there, [6] before obtaining her DMA from Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences [7] in 2012. [8] Her doctoral dissertation Flowing Waters and the Flow of Time: Guan Pinghu's Interpretation of Flowing Waters was supervised by Fred Lerdahl. [9] She studied composition with Lerdahl, Chou Wen-chung, George E. Lewis, and Tristan Murail. [4]
In 2010, Wang was the first-place winner at the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne Young Composers Forum. [5] In 2014, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. [4] In 2015, she started working at Brown University as an assistant professor of music, teaching courses in music theory and composition. [5] [8] She released two solo albums through New Focus Recordings: Urban Inventory (2018) and An Atlas of Time (2020). [1] [2]
In October 2019, her piece Code Switch premiered during the opening night of the 22nd season of Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW. [10] 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". [11] In 2022, she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship. [12] 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 accordioned into the shape of a much smaller one." [13]
Wang's husband, Anthony Cheung, is also a composer. [5] The couple lived in Chicago in the mid-2010s [5] and had a child in the late 2010s. [5]