ania.vu - Ania Vu | Composer, Pianist

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Polish of Vietnamese descent composer and pianist, Ania Vu (née Vũ Đặng Minh Anh) writes music that explores the interplay between the sound properties of the words and their meanings, musical energy related to form, and varied notions of time. She also enjoys crafting her own text—often in Polish—that serves as a sonic, formal, and expressive guiding reference in her musical writing process.

As the winner of the Boston New Music Initiative 's 9th Annual Commissioning Competition (2021) and prize recipient of the Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra 's Call for Scores (2020), Ania has worked with leading new music ensembles and musicians, including the Grossman Ensemble, Daedalus and Mivos string quartets, Sō Percussion , the TAK , International Contemporary and Kamratōn Ensembles, the Iridium Saxophone Quartet , pianist Eunmi Ko , percussionist Robert McCormick , and sopranos Rose Hegele and Paulina

Ania is the 2022-23 Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Chicago's Center for Contemporary Composition. She recently completed her fellowship with the Composers & the Voice , a two-year training program that provides experience writing for the voice and opera stage. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania , where she studied with Anna Weesner , James Primosch , Marcos Balter , and Amy Williams . In 2017, she received her B.M. in composition and theory from the Eastman School of Mu

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