Yi-Ting Lu, born and raised in Taiwan and currently based in Chicago, is a composer whose works often reflect and reshape live scenes or experiences through fragmented acoustic sounds. Concepts of transcultural exchanges and collectivity can be discovered
within her compositions.
She is a recipient of the Carl Kanter Prize for orchestral composition, the William T. Faricy Award for creative music, Nief-Norf Summer Festival International Call for Score Winner, and Transient Canvas Composition Fellowship. Other honors include being chosen as a representative of Taiwan at the 66th International Rostrum of Composers in Argentina, recognized for honorable mention at the DeGaetano Composition Institute, and selected as a finalist in the Talea Ensemble Emerging Composer Commissioning Program, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Competition, and the Young Composers’ Competition of Rudolph Award. Her work has also been the 2019 Ilsuono Contemporary Music Academy’s Choice to be published by AltrEdizioni Casa Editrice.
Her music has been featured in Time:Span Festival (USA), Gaudeamus Festival (NL), Ilsuono Contemporary Music Academy (IT), Musiikin Aiko Time of Music (FI), Musikinstitut Darmstadt (GR), Sound of Wander (IT), Voix Nouvelles Academy in Royaumont (FR), International Double Reed Society (USA), Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium (TL), Nanhua Ethnomusicology International Symposium (TW), Asian Classical Music Initiative Conference (USA), and others; has been performed, and/or commissioned by the Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Suono Giallo, Ensemble vocal Les Métaboles, Ensemble Mise-en, Mdi Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Orkest De Ereprijs, PushBack Collective, Quatuor Tana, Yarn/Wire, 3 People Music, Clarinetist Vasko Dukovski, MSM Orchestra (under the baton of George Manahan), National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, among others.
Yi-Ting is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in composition and music technology at Northwestern University under the tutelage of Hans Thomalla, Jay Alan Yim, and Alex Mincek. She completed a Master’s degree in Music Composition at Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Reiko Füting and Susan Botti. Prior to her graduate studies in the United States, she studied with Tsung-Hsien Yang and Wan-Jen Huang and received her Bachelor’s degree in Music Composition and Theory at Taipei National University of the Arts.