Now at Copland House

Chinese-born WANG XI’s music explores bold, dramatic storytelling and narrative complexities, and has been showcased by the Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras, and Atlanta and Dallas Symphonies, among others. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a MacDowell Colony residency. She has also been commissioned by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, League of American Orchestras, Shanghai Philharmonic, and World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and has collaborated with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Osmo Vänskä, Fabio Luisi, Mei-Ann Chen, Karen Gomyo, and other prominent artists and ensembles. A graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Cornell University, she began her musical journey in China at age five. She is currently an award-winning professor of composition at Southern Methodist University.