I've been playing piano since I was a kid and began composing in 2012.  In 2014 I enrolled in Juilliard's Evening Division and have studied composition with Ray Lustig, Conrad Cummings and Benjamin Boyle, orchestration with Jude Vaclavik and Daniel Ott, and Music Production with Elliot Cole.  I attended the European American Musical Alliance composition program in Paris in 2016 and virtually in 2020.  I've studied piano with Laura DuBois and Alan Wasserman.

Sam Wu's music "abounds in delicate colours, wisps of sound and sylvan textures" (Gramophone). Many of his works center around extra-musical themes: architecture and urban planning, climate science, and the search for exoplanets that harbor life.

Selected for the American Composers Orchestra's EarShot readings and the Tasmanian Symphony's Australian Composers' School, winner of an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and First Prize at the Washington International Competition, Sam Wu also received Harvard's Robert Levin Prize and Juilliard's Palmer Dixon Prize. 

Sam’s collaborations span five continents, notably with the orchestras of Philadelphia, New Jersey, Minnesota, Sarasota, Melbourne, Tasmania, Macao, and Shanghai, the New York City Ballet, National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Sydney International Piano Competition, the Lontano, Parker, Argus, ETHEL, and icarus Quartets, conductors Osmo Vänskä, Marin Alsop, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Dina Gilbert, and Benjamin Northey, violinist Johan Dalene, and shēng virtuoso Wu Wei.

Sam has been featured on the National Geographic Channel, Business Insider, Harvard Crimson, Sydney Morning Herald, Asahi Shimbun, People's Daily, CCTV, among others.

From Melbourne, Australia, Sam Wu holds degrees from Harvard University, The Juilliard School, and Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. He is currently on faculty at Whitman College, as their Visiting Assistant Professor in Theory and Composition. Sam's teachers include Tan Dun, Anthony Brandt, Pierre Jalbert, Chaya Czernowin, and Richard Beaudoin.

My new album - Modern Sounds in Classical Music - is now available on Bandcamp and all major platforms.

You can reach me through my web site:

An interesting string quartet for weddings and functions.

Jean-Marc is a composer, sound designer, and pianist based in NYC.

For any inquiries, please contact:
jmymusicmail@gmail.com

music for two; for me and for you
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Picking up where the 90's left off. I hope to take you on a journey with beautiful passionate music and thought-provoking lyrics.

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