Field-Of-Study: Music Composition

Composer and pianist Wang Lu was born in Xi’an, the ancient capital of China. Brought up in a musical family with strong Chinese opera and folk music traditions, she composes works that reflect a very natural identification with those influences, through the prism of contemporary instrumental techniques and new sonic possibilities. Wang Lu’s works for

I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, a city that has always had a very distinctive character. The particular part of the city that I grew up in (the South Side) also had quite an esoteric and mystical tendency, but I was not aware of this when I was younger, only seeing this in

Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and director. He is the recipient of the 2013 Berlin Prize in Music Composition from The American Academy in Berlin. Since 2001 his work has focused on global culture and music’s relationship with architecture, video and dance. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with

Stephen Andrew Taylor composes music that explores boundaries between art and science. His first orchestra commission, Unapproachable Light, inspired by images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the New Testament, was premiered by the American Composers Orchestra in 1996 in Carnegie Hall. Other works include the chamber quartet Quark Shadows,

New York City flutist, composer, recording artist, and clinician Jamie Baum has toured the U.S. and over twenty-eight countries, performing at major festivals and concert halls. She has performed with artists as renowned and diverse as George Russell, Randy Brecker, Donald Brown, Mick Goodrick, and Tom Harrell, to Dave Douglas, Fred Hersch, Uri Caine, V.M