Wenbin Lyu
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| Biography | Wenbin Lyu (*1994) is a Chinese composer and guitarist based in the United States, whose compositions blend contemporary Western techniques with ancient Eastern culture. His work draws inspiration from nature, science, and video games. Lyu holds degrees from the China Conservatory, New England Conservatory, and Cincinnati College-Conservatory. He has received fellowships from prestigious institutions and festivals such as the Tanglewood Music Center, the Cabrillo Festival Composers Workshop, the Blackbird Creative Lab, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. His works have been featured at numerous events, including the Society of Composers Inc., RED NOTE, TUTTI, Alba, Cabrillo, New Music Gathering, Tanglewood, International Computer Music Conference, The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, Insitut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique / Musique, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music, and SPLICE, and have been performed by acclaimed ensembles including the Beijing Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Tianjin Symphony, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Fifth House Ensemble, Del Sol Quartet, Icarus Quartet, Society for New Music, Capitol Quartet, Transient Canvas, and Hypercube. In recognition of his academic achievements, Lyu was awarded the China National Scholarship in 2016 and the Donald Martino Award for Excellence in Composition in 2020. He has also received a Young Composer Award by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and three The American Prize awards. In addition, two virtual reality films he composed premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2016. Lyu currently serves as a composer-in-residence at HAcappella, based at Harvard University. ABOUT Wenbin Lyu: «Adlez» «Adlez» was composed in the fall of 2020 during the lockdown. I got the idea for this piece from a video game poster that was behind my work desk «The Legend of Zelda». Whenever I had a Zoom meeting and observed myself on my laptop, the poster would show «Adlez» instead of «Zelda», and that's how I randomly titled it. While writing this piece, I imagined myself adventuring in this open-world game a lot. As a result, the piece is a perpetual motion with various colorful timbres. This work is also my (first exploration and practice of the music programming language RTcmix, which I used to generate and process sound materials. |
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