Li-Ying Wu Li-Ying Wu
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1978, Li-Ying Wu graduated from the Department of Music at National Taiwan Normal University, majoring in theory and composition. In 2003 she went to the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen for further study with Bent Sørensen, Niels Rosing-Schow and Hans Abrahamsen. In 2010 she received the highest composer’s diploma from the Royal Danish Academy of Music; that autumn she went on to specialize in electronic music composition at the Danish Institute of Electronic Music (DIEM), graduating with top marks in 2012.
Wu currently teaches at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus (The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus). In 2014 she was invited to give a guest composition seminar at the Royal Academy of Music, London (The Royal Academy of Music, London); her work and teaching are highly regarded internationally.
Selected commissions and performances: Danish National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Danish Opera, Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra (CH), China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra (CH), Copenhagen Phil Symphony Orchestra (DK), Ålborg Symphony Orchestra (DK), EnsembleStorstrøm (DK), Rei Makamura (JP/DE), KLANG festival (DK), Nadia Ratsimandresy (FR), ARS musica festival (BE), Huddersfield festival (UK), Music teater SAUM (DK), Teater Zebu (DK), Curious Chamber Ensemble (SE), SWR Experimental (DE) and others. From 2012 to 2014 she was composer-in-residence with Århus Sinfonietta.
Awards: 2021–2024 Augustinus fond arts project grant; 2015–2019 arts grant from the Danish Composers’ Society; 2014–17 arts grant from the Danish Arts Agency; 2014 nominee, Carl Prisen; 2010 Bisballe Foundation Artist of the Year Award; 2009 arts grant from the Astrid and Aksel Agerbysu memorial fund; honorable mention in the chamber music category of the Council for Cultural Affairs’ 2004 Formosa Composition Competition; and others.
Other positions: from 2024, organist for Skælskør og Eggeslevmagle Kirker of the Church of Denmark; from 2022, board member and artistic board member of Århus Sinfonietta; from 2020, external examiner at the Royal Danish Academy of Music; 2018–2021, board member of the Danish Arts Foundation; 2015–2016, member of the KODA scholarship committee; 2013–2017, executive board member of the Danish Arts Foundation; 2010–2021, board member of the Danish Composers’ Society.