Premiere of "feathered beings" on March 3, 2023 at the University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, IL. Commissioned by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition. 

Grossman Ensemble
David Fulmer, conductor

feathered beings for Thirteen Players (2023)

I teach in US higher education (in a STEM field) & am a hobbyist composer writing in a few different styles. I recommend headphones. All of my music is released under a Creative Commons Attribution/Noncommercial license.

My bandcamp page is getting out of date again, but some older albums there can be downloaded for free or for a name-your-own price donation.

If anyone wants to try performing any of this stuff on real instruments please send a message and I can provide scores. Not sure how playable some of it is for human musicians though.

Unsolicited messages asking me to listen to your latest song will lead to you being blocked unless if I know you well and we've interacted a lot.

My music is written without the use of AI, though some of my older albums used jankier, older (pre-chatGPT) AI for album art.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for visiting!

Composer Yiheng Yvonne Wu (b.1981, Taiwan) earned a Ph.D. and M.A in Music from the University of California, San Diego and a B.A. in Music from Yale University. Her compositions have been performed by the La Jolla Symphony conducted by Steven Schick, Arraymusic, Palimpsest, Ensemble SurPlus, Bonnie Whiting, Jessica Aszodi, Carla Rees, Rachel Beetz, and Dustin Donahue, among others. Her music has been featured in the WasteLAnd concert series, New Music on the Bayou Festival, SoundSCAPE Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and Schloss Solitude Summer Academy. She was the winner of the 5th Mivos/Kanter String Quartet Composition Prize. Primary composition teachers have included Katharina Rosenberger, Kathryn Alexander, John Halle, Sophia Serghi, and Steven Takasugi. She is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Previously, she taught at Beloit College, where she founded and directed the InterArts Ensemble. 

Artwork by Karl Pilato www.karlpilato.com

feathered beings for Thirteen Players (2023)

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