Media: Wang Lu, composer/pianist

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An Atlas of Time

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Wang Lu: An Atlas of Time

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Urban Inventory

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Wang Lu: Urban Inventory

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Mission: Commission | Season 3

New episodes every Tuesday until the premiere of the new work onward, wayward at Miller Theatre on June 27th.

Across a six-week timeline to create newly commissioned pieces of music. This season, each composer writes a work for piano and another instrument: "Piano + 1".

LAUNCHING MAY 2023. Stay tuned: missioncommissionpodcast.com

onward, wayward, for piano and percussion

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Wang Lu: Aftertouch (2021)

For solo flute and live electronics
commissioned and premiered by Claire Chase for Density 2036
Wang Lu: Aftertouch (2021)

For solo flute and live electronics
commissioned and premiered by Claire Chase for Density 2036
Wang Lu: Aftertouch (2021)

For solo flute and live electronics
commissioned and premiered by Claire Chase for Density 2036
desert in (2021)

An Opera Miniseries in eight episodes
Commissioned by the Boston Lyric Opera
At Which Point (2021)

A film production of my work At Which Point for 24 voices and electronics
Commissioned and premiered by the Crossing Ensemble, June 2021.
Urban Inventory: VI. tell you softly

for large ensemble (16 musicians)
Avaliable from New Focus Recordings (fcr197) Wang Lu: Urban Inventory
Like Clockwork (2020)

Seattle Modern Orchestra
World Premiere
An Atlas of Time (2013)

Excerpt from the premiere
Ensemble Modern, conducted by Johannes Kalitzke. November 24, 2013, Frankfurt (Cresc. Biennale 2013)
A-PPA-Aratus (2019)

for two percussionist and two pianists
Miller theatre portrait concert by the International Contemporary Ensemble
Soundmaking Podcast Interview

Soundmaking Podcast interview on my album Urban Inventory with Matthew Shlomowitz
Cloud Intimacy (2016)

Performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble. Campbell MacDonald, clarinet; Ryan Muncy, saxophone; Maiya Papach, viola; Daniel Lippel, guitar; Jacob Greenberg, pianoNathan Davis, percussion. Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY.
Backstory

for large ensemble (16 musicians)
Alarm Will Sound, conducted by Alan Pierson
2016 Mizzou International Composers Festival.
Feedback: a conversation with ensemble Yarn/Wire and Melissa Smey

December 15, 2020 at 3pm ET. This episode features Wang Lu with host Melissa Smey, to talk about Wang's piece "Aaaparatus."
Past Beyond (2012)

Excerpt from the premiere
Ensemble Intercontemporain, conducted by Susanna Mälkki. October 4, 2012, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Flowing Water Study II (2011)

for chamber orchestra, with live video
Excerpt from the premiere. American Composers Orchestra, conducted by George Manahan. October 14, 2011, Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York. Live video by Daniel Iglesia.
Fathertongue (2011) for orchestra

for chamber orchestra, with live video
Excerpt from the premiere. Cabrillo Music Festival on Aug. 4, 2011, at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, California.
Cross-Around (2010)

Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, conducted by Lorraine Vaillancourt. Nov. 26, 2010, Salle Claude Champagne, Université de Montréal, Canada
Accompanies Leighton Pierce’s film Number One.
US-China Forum 2020 | Urban Inventory: Composing Soundscapes of Modern China

Urban Inventory: Composing Soundscapes of Modern China and Performance of Wang Lu's Urban Inventory. Performers: Ensemble Dal Niente
Wailing (2008) for large orchestra - Excerpt

Wailing for orchestra Premiered by Minnesota Orchestra in 2008.
Rates of Extinction (2017) - Excerpt

Ning Yu: piano, live performance at Miller Theatre, Feb. 2019
From the Distant Plains II (2010) - Excerpt

Scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cell and piano. Premiered by the International Contemporary Ensemble in 2010.
Ryan and Dan (2017) for tenor sax and electric guitar

Watch performance by Ryan Muncy and Daniel Lippel at National Sawdust.
Transplant, Transpose (2019)

April 27, 2019; Portrait concert with ensemble mosaik, Berlin, sponsored by the American Academy in Berlin. With soloists Wu Wei (sheng) and Ryan Muncy (saxophone), conducted by Anthony Cheung.
Jennifer Koh’s Limitless - Wang Lu: Her Latitude

Violinist Jennifer Koh’s Limitless, based on her groundbreaking recital project of the same name, bridges the modern divide between composer and instrumentalist, celebrates artistic collaboration, and revives the grand tradition of composers performing their own music.
Bathing for solo soprano (2020)

Performer: Stephanie Lamprea. #GLFCAMGigThruCOVID, Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music.
Her Latitude (2018) - I

for solo violin and electronics. Limitless, Released on: 2019-09-13 ℗ 2019 Cedille. Jennifer Koh, violin.
Her Latitude (2018) - II

for solo violin and electronics. Limitless, Released on: 2019-09-13 ℗ 2019 Cedille. Jennifer Koh, violin.
Her Latitude (2018) - III

for solo violin and electronics. Limitless, Released on: 2019-09-13 ℗ 2019 Cedille. Jennifer Koh, violin.
Urban Inventory (2015) - mvt 1

Urban Inventory is scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and electronics. Commissioned by the 2015 MATA Festival, premiered by the Curious Chamber Players
Recombinant (Part I)

Recombinant: Wang Lu and Anthony Cheung Joel Fan, piano (World Premiere)
Unbreathable Colors (2017) Excerpt

Written for and premiered by Miranda Cuckson at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, April 5, 2017
Between Air (2018)

for clarinet and string quartet
Aizuri Quartet and clarinetist Kenan Azmeh
Childhood Amnesia (2017)

for clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion
Miller theatre portrait concert by the International Contemporary Ensemble
Double Trance (2016) for string quartet

Momenta Quartet, September 29, 2016, Tenri Cultural Center, NY
Missing Absence (2016) for organ

Performance by Mark Steinbach in Berlin, 2016
Winter Night (2006) - Excerpt

Winter Night written in 2006 for solo piano performed by composer herself.
Double Trance (2016) for string quartet

Momenta Quartet. Live recording of the premiere, September 28, 2016, Tenri Cultural Center, NY
Trinkets (2013) - Excerpt

Trinkets is written for and premiered by Ensemble Pamplemouse in 2012.
HaiZi (2012) - Excerpt

Hai Zi is scored for traditional Chinese ensemble of two bamboo flutes, Suona, two Pipa, Zheng, two percussionists and two Gehu. premiered in 2012, conducted by Zhang Yinfang.
Lost Dialects (2008) - Excerpt

Lost Dialect is scored for ob. cl. bsn. tpt. tbn. perc. vc. premiered by Argento Ensemble in 2010.
Urban Inventory (2015)

for chamber ensemble and electronics. Live performance by the Third Sound ensemble. Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco, CA, April 7, 2018
Shear (2005) - Excerpt

Shear is written for string quartet, premiered by Momenta Quartet in October 2005 at the Tenri Cultural Center, New York.
A Distant World (2004)

A Distant World is for solo flute, commissioned and premiered by flutist Christoph Bosch in 2004.
Qing Dan (2003)

Qing Dan is scored for Chinese bamboo flute, Zheng, two Pipa, two percussionists. Recorded by the faculties at the Central Conservatory of Music.
Siren Song (2010) - Excerpt

Siren Song is scored for 10 musicians. Excerpt from a performance by the Ensemble Intercontemporain.
The Sound of Ceramics, Wang Lu and Polly Apfelbaum

The Sound of Ceramics is a musical/sculptural collaboration. The composer Wang Lu, an assistant professor of music at Brown, and Polly Apfelbaum, an artist living in New York, met at the American Academy in Rome in 2012.
Xijiang Moon for tenor

Chicago Opera Theater COT
An 11th-century Chinese poem about sharing solitude seemed very timely to 1st-year Vanguard Composer Wang Lu, who set the words of Su Shi for tenor William Ottow in this brand-new #cotmicrojams premiere.
The Everlasting Voices for baritone

Chicago Opera Theater COT
Bass-baritone Keanon Kyles is back wrapping up our #cotmicrojams with Wang Lu’s heartfelt setting of “The Everlasting Voices” by W.B. Yeats.
Wang Lu speaks about her new work "Hover and Recede"

Alone Together is an artistic response to the coronavirus pandemic and the financial hardship it has placed on many in the music community. It is an online commissioning project that brings composers together in support of the many freelancers among them.
Ning Yu "Of Being" CD Release Chat

Pianist Ning Yu discusses her release "Of Being" with composers Wang Lu and Emily Praetorius and plays excerpts from their works as well as a piece by Misato Mochizuki from FCR242 "Of Being"

Miller Theatre’s podcastMission: Commission | Season 3

onward, wayward, for piano and percussion

Wang Lu: Aftertouch (2021)

Wang Lu: Aftertouch (2021)

Wang Lu: Aftertouch (2021)

desert in (2021)

At Which Point (2021)

Urban Inventory: VI. tell you softly

Like Clockwork (2020)

An Atlas of Time (2013)

A-PPA-Aratus (2019)

Soundmaking Podcast Interview

Cloud Intimacy (2016)

Backstory

Feedback: a conversation with ensemble Yarn/Wire and Melissa Smey

Past Beyond (2012)

Flowing Water Study II (2011)

Fathertongue (2011) for orchestra

Cross-Around (2010)

US-China Forum 2020 | Urban Inventory: Composing Soundscapes of Modern China

Wailing (2008) for large orchestra - Excerpt

Rates of Extinction (2017) - Excerpt

From the Distant Plains II (2010) - Excerpt

Ryan and Dan (2017) for tenor sax and electric guitar

Transplant, Transpose (2019)

Jennifer Koh’s Limitless - Wang Lu: Her Latitude

Bathing for solo soprano (2020)

Her Latitude (2018) - I

Her Latitude (2018) - II

Her Latitude (2018) - III

Urban Inventory (2015) - mvt 1

Recombinant (Part I)

Unbreathable Colors (2017) Excerpt

Between Air (2018)

Childhood Amnesia (2017)

Double Trance (2016) for string quartet

Missing Absence (2016) for organ

Winter Night (2006) - Excerpt

Double Trance (2016) for string quartet

Trinkets (2013) - Excerpt

HaiZi (2012) - Excerpt

Lost Dialects (2008) - Excerpt

Urban Inventory (2015)

Shear (2005) - Excerpt

A Distant World (2004)

Qing Dan (2003)

Siren Song (2010) - Excerpt

The Sound of Ceramics, Wang Lu and Polly Apfelbaum

Xijiang Moon for tenor

The Everlasting Voices for baritone

Wang Lu speaks about her new work "Hover and Recede"

Ning Yu "Of Being" CD Release Chat

Miller Theatre’s podcast
Mission: Commission | Season 3