WENBIN LYU

WENBIN LYU (b. 1994) is an award-winning US-based Chinese composer and guitarist. The composition written by Wenbin Lyu combines contemporary western techniques with ancient oriental culture. He seeks inspiration from nature, science, and video games.

Lyu’s works have been performed at many events, including Tanglewood, ICMC, NYCEMF, NSEME, TUTTI, Collage Composers Colloquium, Arts Letters & Numbers, The 21st Century Guitar Conference, Ivy League Spring Festival Gala, NCPA Young Composer Programme, China National Symphony Orchestra Young Composer Program, among others. His music has been performed by Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, NEC Philharmonia, CCM Concert Orchestra, Fifth House Ensemble, Del Sol Quartet, Tacet(i), icarus Quartet, and Transient Canvas. Based on his outstanding academic performance, he was honored to receive the China National Scholarship in 2016 and Donald Martino Award for Excellence in Composition in 2020.

His music was performed widely worldwide, including in Asia, Europe, North and South America. Lyu’s compositions include orchestra, concerto, chamber, opera, and electronic music. In 2021, he was invited to Tanglewood Music Center as a composition fellow. Lyu is the recipient of Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, CCM Orchestral Composition Commission Competition, NEC Honor Competition, and Charles Ives Music Festival Call for Scores; Two VR movies he composed premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2016. Lyu serves as a composer-in-residence at HAcappella where based at Harvard University, and the all-female musician group New Downbeat in Cincinnati.

Lyu received degrees from China Conservatory and NEC, and he is currently pursuing a Doctorate at CCM.