"“Urban Inventory,” recorded deftly on a 2018 album, is one highlight of a portrait concert that Columbia University’s Miller Theater is devoting to her music on Thursday, Feb. 21. Lu is herself a recent Columbia graduate, and the Miller concert will feature performances by the International Contemporary Ensemble and Yarn/Wire and the premiere of a new work titled “A-PPA-Aratus.”"
— The New York Times, Feb. 15, 2019 (Full Review)
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Past Performances + Events
2024
| August 21, 2024 | PS21: center for contemporary performance in the Hudson Valley Wang Lu: Stages for solo percussion (East Coast Premiere) PS21 |
Chatham, NY |
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| July 7, 20244:00 pm | Aspen Festival Orchestra Wang Lu: Surge Dmitri Slobodeniouk, conductor |
Aspen, CO |
| April 20, 20241:30 pm | Pensacola Symphony Orchestra Wang Lu: Surge Peter Rubardt, conductor |
Pensacola, FL |
| March 3, 20243:00 pm | New England Philharmonic Wang Lu: Surge Boston University’s Tsai Performance Center |
Boston, MA |
| February 23, 20247:30 pm | Sand Box Percussion Wang Lu: Spring Struck Grant Recital Hall at Brown University |
Providence, RI |
| February 9, 20247:30 pm CST | Contemporary Music Ensemble Wang Lu: Cross-Around Ben Bolter, conductor Galvin Recital Hall at Northwestern University |
Evanston, IL |
2023
| October 8, 20232:00 pm | World premiere of a solo percussion and theatre piece for Bonnie Whiting Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse Theater |
Seattle, WA |
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| September 21, 20237:30 pm | The Crossing at Harvard University Wang Lu: At Which Point Donald Nally, conductor John Knowles Paine Hall |
Cambridge, MA |
| September 18, 20237:30 pm | The Crossing at Yale University Wang Lu: At Which Point Donald Nally, conductor Battell Chapel |
New Haven, CT |
| September 16, 20237:00 pm | The Crossing Wang Lu: At Which Point Donald Nally, conductor Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill |
Philadelphia, PA |
| June 14-26, 2023 | Yarn/Wire International Institute Faculty |
New York, NY |
| June 18, 20238:00 pm | World premiere of piano quintet Wave Field Schumannfest Düsseldorf Boris Brovtsyn, violin; Daishin Kashimoto, violin; Amihai Grosz, viola; Claudio Bohórquez, cello; Saleem Ashkar, piano |
Düsseldorf, Germany |
| June 5-17, 2023 | New Music On The Point Faculty |
Lake Dunmore, VT |
| June 11, 20238:00 pm | Da Capo Chamber Players Trinkets (2013) for flute/piccolo, violin, cello, piano Tenri Cultural Institute |
New York, NY |
| June 10, 20237:00 pm | International Contemporary Ensemble From a Distant Plains II (2010) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano Stiefel Hall at Mannes School of Music |
New York, NY |
| June 3, 20238:00 pm | Seattle Modern Orchestra The Nothing Man and Other Tales for soprano and ensemble World Premiere commissioned for Seattle Modern Orchestra Town Hall - Great Hall |
Seattle WA |
| May 2023 | Miller Theatre’s podcast - Mission: Commission | Season 3 New episodes every Tuesday until the premiere of the new work onward, wayward at Miller Theatre on June 27th. |
Podcast |
| April 12, 2023 | The CCM new music ensemble: Musica Nova An Atlas of Time |
Cincinnati, OH |
| April 1 and 2, 20238:00 pm | Phoenix Ensemble Basel Backstory for large ensemble |
Basel, Switzerland |
| March 2, 20237:00 pm | Tapiola Sinfonietta An Atlas of Time Espoo Cultural Centre |
Espoo, Finland |
| January 24, 20235:30 pm | Yarn/Wire International Summer Institute Festival Wang Lu: Ligament (World Premiere) Elizabeth Hall-Keough, cello Joel Ferst, soprano sax Thomas Gauthier-Lang, tenor sax DiMenna Center for Classical Music |
New York, NY |
| January 20, 21, 20238:00 pm January 22, 20232:00 pm |
New commission from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation for the NY Phil Wang Lu: Surge (World Premiere) Dalia Stasevska, conductor New York Philharmonic Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall |
New York, NY |
| January 18, 20237:30 pm | The Phoenix Symphony contemporary music festival REVERB curated by Jennifer Koh Envy for violin, oboe and double bass Central United Methodist |
Phoenix, AZ |
| January 14, 2023 | Ensemble Sillages From the Distant Plains II for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano  Featured interview (in French) |
Brest, France |
| January 20, 2023 | "Constellations Apart” on New Focus Pianist Jacob Greenberg released "Constellations Apart” on New Focus |
2022
| 2022-2023 | Luna Composition Lab 2022-23 Mentor |
New York, NY |
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| December 2, 2022 | Release of Lacuna for solo piano by Shai Wosner | New Focus Recordings |
| October 2022 | Residency at MacDowell | Peterborough, NH |
| September 2022 | Residency at Yaddo | Saratoga Springs, NY |
| August 14, 20228:30 pm | Ensemble Mosaik Ligament 9’30’’ for Oboe, Tenor Sax and Cello (World Premiere) Acker Stadt Palast |
Berlin, Germany |
| August 8-14, 2022 | The Loretto Project - Resident Mentor Composer I’m the resident mentor composer with LongLeash Trio at Lorreto Kentucky, working with young composers and rehearsing a new piano trio for them. |
Nerinx, KY |
| July 3, 20225:00 pm | 能声楽家・青木涼子×チェロ・竹本聖子～現代音楽×能～ Seven Poems for Noh performer and cello Ryoko Aoki, Noh performer |
Tokyo, Japan |
| June 2, 20227:00 pm | Talea Ensemble: Encores Between Air for clarinet and string quartet Talea Ensemble Americas Society |
YouTube |
| March 25, 20228:15 pm | Big Ears Festival: Ensemble Dal Niente Urban Inventory for chamber ensemble and electronics ensemble Dal Niente First Baptist Church |
Knoxville, TN |
| March 14, 20227:30 pm | New York Philharmonic’s Sound On concert My piece Between Air for clarinet and string quartet will be played at the NY Phi’s SoundOn concert on March 14th. |
New York, NY |
| March 4, 20227:30 pm | Concert Premiere, Chicago Opera Theater Chamber Opera The Beekeeper Libretto by Kelley Rourke |
Chicago, IL |
| January 29, 20227:30 pm | Shai Wosner Premieres Lacuna at the Wallis Center Wosner's concert will feature Variations on a Theme of FDR, a work he commissioned from five astonishing American composers. Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Bram Goldsmith Theater |
Beverly Hills, CA |
| January 16, 20223:00 pm | Songs of Perseverance NOVA Chamber music series feature my solo piano work “Rates of Extinction” Libby Gardner Concert Hall |
Salt Lake City, UT |
| 2020 – 2022 | Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Wang Lu Selected for Chicago Opera Theater’s Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Program. 20/21 Season & 21/22 Season, Chicago Opera Theater |
Chicago, IL |
2021
| December 12-16, 2021 | Workshop at Chicago Opera Theater Chamber opera The Beekeeper |
Chicago, IL |
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| December 11, 20218:00 pm | Talea Ensemble Premiere of November Airs for Talea Ensemble DiMenna Center for Classical Music |
New York, NY |
| December 9-11, 2021 | Claire Chase: Density 2036, part viii Premiere of Aftertouch for flute and live electronics as Claire Chase’s Density 2036 project. The Kitchen |
New York, NY |
| November 19, 20218:00 pm | Seattle Modern Orchestra Performance of Ryan and Dan Town Hall - The Forum |
Seattle, WA |
| November 6, 20215:00 pm | Miranda Cuckson at Wien Modern Performance of Unbreathable Colors |
Wien, Austria |
| October 27, 20217:00 pm | PianoFest at Roosevelt University:
New Music / New Inspirations
Kuang-Hao Huang, piano Ganz Hall |
Chicago, IL |
| October 20, 20217:00 pm | IU South Bend Piano Series Performance of Recombinant I Louise E. Addicott & Yatish J. Joshi Performance Hall |
South Bend, IN |
| September 17, 20218:00 pm | Cross Rhythms, Presented by Old First Concerts Gloria Cheng performs Recombinant I in San Francisco at Old First Church |
San Francisco, CA |
| August 10, 202112:00 pm | Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Jacob Greenberg premieres Constellations Apart, for solo piano. |
Santa Fe, NM |
| July 25 - July 31, 2021 | Summer Residency for New Music Hosted by Ensemble Dal Niente and DePaul University The DePaul University School of Music announces a week-long virtual Summer Residency for New Music in collaboration with the acclaimed new music chamber group Ensemble Dal Niente and featuring distinguished guest composer Wang Lu. |
Virtual Events |
| July 19, 2021 | zFestival Summer 2021 Guest Artists |
Virtual Events |
| July 3, 2021 | BBC 3 New Music Show An Atlas of Time was featured on the New Music Show |
Virtual Events |
| June 18-19, 20216:30 pm | The Month of Moderns 2021 Presented by The Crossing and The Annenberg Center At which point for 24 singers and electronic processes (premiere) based on poetry of 2019 Pulitzer winner Forrest Gander |
Awbury Arboretum Philadelphia, PA |
| June 14 -20, 2021 | Yarn/Wire Summer Institute Faculty, The 2021 Yarn/Wire International Institute Online |
Virtual Events |
| June 2021 | One Episode of Desert In: a TV-opera, commissioned by Boston Lyric Opera Episode 5: “i miss you more than I remember you” Composer: Wang Lu Writer: christopher oscar peña Coming to operabox.tv June 2021 Pre-Order Episode 5 Now! |
operabox.tv |
| April 2021 | The DiMenna Center for Classical Music New Work for Talea Ensemble in collaboration with visual artist Polly Apfelbaum, Fromm Commission from Harvard University. |
New York, NY |
2020
| December 19, 20208:00 pm | This is Beethoven – Farrin, Wang, & Kagel Seattle Modern Orchestra at the “This is Beethoven” festival. Featuring a world premiere by Wang Lu, Like Clockwork, and Mauricio Kagel’s 1970 Ludwig van. Broadcast from Vashon Arts Center. |
Livestream |
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| December 15, 20203:00 pm ET | Feedback: a conversation with ensemble Yarn/Wire and Melissa Smey This episode features Wang Lu with host Melissa Smey, to talk about Wang's piece "Aaaparatus." |
Livestream |
| December 6, 20208:00 pm | OPEN SCORE - a conversation with composer Wang Lu Composer Wang Lu in conversation with SMO co-Artistic Director Jérémy Jolley. Wang Lu is the featured composer on SMO's Virtual Concert during This is Beethoven Festival hosted Emerald City Music (December 16-19). The conversation will explore Wang's artistic path and aesthetic inquiry with a focus on her new piece commissioned by SMO and premiered in December, Like Clockwork. |
Livestream |
| Fall 2020 | New Solo Piano Work for Shai Wosner in honor of I.M. Pei. Details TBD | |
| Fall 2020 | New Music USA commission Trio for violin, cello and piano, New Music USA commission for Longleash Trio. Details TBD |
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| May 14, 2020 | Bathing for solo soprano (2020) Text by Lucy Corin. Performed by Stephanie Lamprea. Commissioned by GLFCAMGigThruCOVID |
Livestream |
| April 4, 20207:00 pm ET | Jennifer Koh's Alone Together - Week 1 World Premiere, Wang Lu: Hover and Recede. Jennifer Koh, violin. |
Livestream |
| 2020 | US-China Forum 2020 | Urban Inventory: Composing Soundscapes of Modern China Visit UChicago Global’s website for more information about the US-China Forum 2020: The Matter of Art. |
Chicago, IL |
2019
| December 19, 2019 | New work for Noh performer and cello, commissioned by Ryoko Aoki (Noh x Contemporary Music project). | Shibaura House, Tokyo |
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| October 24, 2019 | The University of Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jonathan Shames, performs Wailing. | Norman, OK |
| October 7, 2019 | Premiere of Code Switch for the opening of the Chicago Symphony's MusicNOW season, curated by Missy Mazzoli. | Chicago, IL |
| May 23-24, 2019 | Residency at the University of Washington. Performance of Urban Inventory by the University of Washington Modern Music Ensemble, conducted by Mario Alejandro Torres. Colloquium on May 24. | Seattle, WA |
| May 6, 2019 | Performance of Cross-Around by the Berg Orchestra, conducted by Peter Vrábel. Czech Museum of Music. | Prague, Czech Republic |
| 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. Premiere of Transplant, Transpose, and German Premiere of Urban Inventory. | Berlin, Germany |
| March 19, 2019 | Portrait concert at the Columbia Global Center in Paris, featuring ensemble recherche. Premiere of Movable Set, performances of Unbreathable Colors and Urban Inventory. | Paris, France |
| March 2-3, 2019 | Performances of Between Air with Kinan Azmeh and the MusicWorks Collective. | Providence, RI |
| February 21, 2019 | Portrait concert at Miller Theatre, New York. Featuring the International Contemporary Ensemble and Yarn/Wire. Premiere of new work for Yarn/Wire, plus Childhood Amnesia (2017), Rates of Extinction (2016), Urban Inventory (2015), and Siren Song (2008). | New York, NY |
| January 31, 2019 6 PM | Collecting Wang Lu at the New York Public Library, with members of the International Contemporary Ensemble. Bruno Walter Auditorium, NYPL for the Performing Arts. Free event. | New York, NY |
2018
| November 28, 2018 | Yijia Fang and Xinyuan Li Premiere a short new work for cello and piano at the University of British Columbia School of Music. | Vancouver, BC Canada |
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| November 16, 2018 | Dinosaur Annex performs Trinkets at the First Parish. | Watertown, MA |
| November 2, 2018 | Ensemble Dal Niente performs After some remarks by CW at UC Davis' Pitzer Center. | Davis, CA |
| October 27, 2018 | Premiere of "First Words", written for the New York Virtuoso Singers, conducted by Harold Rosenbaum. | Farmingdale, NY |
| October 15, 2018 | New York New Music Ensemble performs From the Distant Plains II. | New York, NY |
| September 21-22, 2018 | Manifold, a project in collaboration with video artist Filip Rosa, Premieres in four outdoor performances at the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, at the Benadum Center in Pittsburgh. Multiple musical groups conducted by Daniel Nesta Curtis. | Pittsburgh, PA |
| June 21, 2018 | Jennifer Koh records Her Latitude for an upcoming release of works in the Limitless project. | |
| June 1, 2018 | Premiere of Between Air, for clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and the Aizuri Quartet. Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY |
| May 12, 2018 | Ensemble CEPROMUSIC, conducted by Michael Lewanski, performs Cross-Around. | Palacio De Bellas Artes, Mexico City |
| April 7, 2018 4 PM | Third Sound performs Urban Inventory at Bard Music West 2018: The World of Henry Cowell | San Francisco, CA |
| April 5, 2018 | Flutist Barry Crawford of the Talea Ensemble performs A Distant World at Talea's New Orleans residency, Dixon Hall at Tulane University | New Orleans, LA |
| March 15, 2018 | Premiere of Her Latitude for violinist Jennifer Koh, with the composer on electronics. Part of Koh's "Limitless" project at National Sawdust. | Brooklyn, NY |
| February 15-23, 2018 | Ensemble Dal Niente premieres After some remarks by CW for clarinet and harp, on its east coast tour. Concerts at Lilypad (Cambridge, MA, Feb. 15), Brandeis University (Slosberg Music Center, Feb. 17), Spectrum (New York, Feb. 21), and Brown University (Granoff Center, Feb. 23). | |
| February 23, 2018 | Violinist Miranda Cuckson performs Unbreathable Colors at Nunc's residency at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. | Houston, TX |
| February 1, 2018 | Performance of Siren Song by Ensemble 20+, conducted by Michael Lewanski. DePaul University Concert Hall. | Chicago, IL |
| January 25, 2018 | Performance of Recombinant by pianist Joel Fan at the Mansion at Strathmore. | North Bethesda, MD |
| January 21, 2018 | Performance of Ryan and Dan at National Sawdust, with the International Contemporary Ensemble (Ryan Muncy and Daniel Lippel) | Brooklyn, NY |
2017
| November 18, 2017 | Premiere of Recombinant (part 1 by Wang Lu, part 2 by Anthony Cheung), with pianist Joel Fan at the Open Source Music Festival, Abrons Playhouse. | New York, NY |
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| November 16-17, 2017 | Premiere of Childhood Amnesia for the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, conducted by Eduardo Leandro, Stony Brook University and Roulette Brooklyn. | New York |
| October 15, 2017 7:30 PM | New work for Ryan Muncy and Dan Lippel, in response to the poetry of Ocean Vuong (special guest). Brown University, Martinos Auditorium | Providence, RI |
| October 5, 2017 | Unbreathable Colors, performed by the Nieuw Ensemble, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ. | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| October 5, 2017 | The Experiential Orchestra, conducted by James Blachly, premieres Envy, Gluttony, and The Seven Sins in response to paintings by William Woodward, scored for five instruments. The American University Museum. | Washington, DC |
| September 24, 2017 | Organist Mark Steinbach performs Missing Absence at Harvard University, Memorial Church. | Cambridge, MA |
| September 22, 2017 | Pianist Julia Den Boer performs Rates of Extinction (2017) at the Maison Française, Columbia University. | New York, NY |
| July 26, 2017 | Mark Steinbach performs Missing Absence at the Kathedrale Dresden. | Dresden, Germany |
| July 6, 2017 | Performance of Siren Song, conducted by Michael Lewanski, at the soundSCAPE Festival. | Maccagno, Italy |
| April 5, 2017 | Violinist Miranda Cuckson performs the Premiere of Unbreathable Colors at National Sawdust, part of her album release concert "Invisible Colors". | Brooklyn, NY |
| March 5, 2017 | Ryan Muncy and Dan Lippel of ICE perform Ryan and Dan at the Abrons Arts Center, as part of OpenICE. | New York, NY |
| February 25, 2017 | The International Contemporary Ensemble performs Cloud Intimacy and Premiere of Ryan and Dan at the Granoff Center Martinos Auditorium, Brown University. | Providence, RI |
| February 10, 2017 | The Momenta Quartet performs Double Trance at the Granoff Center Martinos Auditorium, Brown University. | Providence, RI |
| February 3, 2017 | Pianist Ning Yu, performs the Premiere of Rates of Extinction at George Washington University. | Washington, D.C. |
2016
| November 13-19, 2016 | Trip to Cuba (Havana Contemporary Music Festival) with Third Sound as part of the American Composers Forum delegation. Performance of Urban Inventory. | Cuba |
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| October 1, 2016 | Organist Mark Steinbach performs the US Premiere of Missing Absence at Brown University's Sayles Hall. | Providence, RI |
| September 30, 20167 PM | Opening of The Sound of Ceramics, an installation at Brown University's Granoff Center Cohen Gallery, in collaboration with Polly Apfelbaum. Live performance by Wang Lu and students. | Providence, RI |
| September 28, 2016 | Premiere of Double Trance by the Momenta Quartet at the Tenri Cultural Institute. | New York, NY |
| August 23, 2016 | US Premiere of Cloud Intimacy with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Lincoln Center. | New York, NY |
| July 30, 2016 | Premiere of Backstory with Alarm Will Sound, conducted by Alan Pierson, at the Mizzou International Composers Festival. | Columbia, MO |
| June-July, 2016 | Six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. | Ranieri Umbertide 06019 PG, Italia |
| July 2, 2016 | Premiere of Missing Absence for organist Mark Steinbach at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris | Paris, France |
| June 5, 2016 | Premiere of Cloud Intimacy by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) | Aspekte Salzburg, Austria |
| March 10, 2016 | PluralEnsemble, conducted by Lorraine Vaillancourt, gives the European premiere of From the Distant Plains II at the Auditorio Nacional de Música. | Madrid, Spain |
| February 12, 2016 | Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conducted by Gil Rose, performs An Atlas of Time, Siren Song, and Cross-Around at Brown University's Cogut Center. Faculty Showcase concert also features works by Eric Nathan and Butch Rovan. | Providence, RI |
2015
| November 21, 2015 | The Brown University Orchestra, conducted by Paul Philips, performed Fathertongue at Sayles Hall, Brown University. | Providence, RI |
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| November 16, 2015 | Performance of A Distant World by flutist Jonah Murphy at the DiMenna Center, as part of the MATA Jr. Festival. | New York, NY |
| November 5, 2015 | Improvised accompaniment with composer/pianist Anthony Cheung for a screening of A Trip Through China (Benjamin Brodsky's 1916 film), at the University of Chicago's Logan Center. | Chicago, IL |
| September 15, 2015 | Café MoMus, conducted by Aik Khai Pung, performed a revised version of Waltz in July at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. | Cincinnati, OH |
| April 14, 2015 | Premiere of Urban Inventory by the Curious Chamber Players, conducted by Rei Munakata, at The Kitchen. Commissioned by the MATA Festival. | New York, NY |
With the Holland Symfonia and conductor Hans Leedners at Gaudeamus Music Week, Sept. 2010.