Xi Wang

Xi Wang’s League Commission Lotus Prayer was premiered BY Berkeley Symphony and music director Joseph Young at Zellerbach Hall on June 4, 2023.

She is a supremely poetic, Impressionistic composer, writing music of delicate refinement via flute, strings and gentle mallet percussion—as if you’re listening to the drops of water falling on an unruffled pond.

Paul Hertelendy, ArtsSF.com – review of the world premiere of Xi Wang’s Lotus Prayer

Since arriving in the USA from her native China in 2001, Xi Wang has pursued a whirlwind of musical activities that have made her a rising star in new music. Her unique fusion of Asian and Western instruments and techniques with theatrical and choreographic elements has captivated audiences. She is increasingly in demand for orchestral, chamber, and vocal music.

Xi Wang’s original concert music has been performed worldwide by notable orchestras and ensembles such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, Voices of Change, Soli Chamber Ensemble, Tippet String Quartet, among others.

She is the recipient of the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts award, Meet the Composer, New Music USA, American Music Center, MacDowell Colony residency, as well as prizes from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

Xi Wang received her B.M. from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, M.M. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and D.M.A. from Cornell University. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Meadow School of Arts of Southern Methodist University. She was a participant in ACO’s 2010 Underwood New Music Readings.

(June 2023)

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