Now at Copland House

SOFIA JEN OUYANG’s music explores the poetic and philosophical dimensions of sound as a site of entanglement, identity, and being. She has been recognized by two BMI Composer Awards, the John Eaton Memorial Competition, Fontainebleau Opus One International Composition Prize, and Columbia University’s Douglas Moore Prize. Her works have been performed by Ensemble Modern, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Juilliard Orchestra, New York Virtuoso Singers, JACK Quartet, Wet Ink and Riot Ensembles, and presented at the Lucerne, MATA, and Mixtur Festivals, Lincoln Center, Frankfurt Opera, and Arvo Pärt Center. She has also collaborated across disciplines with theater director Zhou Ke, choreographer Fran Diaz through the New York Choreographic Institute, and choreographer Kate Sponenburg through the Columbia Ballet Collaborative. She has been Artist-in-Residence of Telos Consort, a DeGaetano Composer Institute Fellow, and a Fromm Foundation Fellow at Composer’s Conference. A graduate of Columbia University, where is currently a Doctoral candidate, she is Music Director of the Westside Chamber Players, and Performing Arts Curator at The BLANC.