About me
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Maxwell Lu is an undergraduate composer attending Columbia University and studying with Andrew Norman as part of the Columbia-Juilliard exchange. His music is inspired by various aesthetics, from minimalism to impressionism, jazz, spectralism, electronic music, and film. As a concurrent computer science student, Lu constantly looks for ways to create and contextualize traditional concert music with new sounds and environments inspired by nature, art, poetry, dance, and philosophy as well as the robust future of electronic, algorithmic, and analysis tools in composition. He is passionate about expanding his orchestral writing and is interested in exploring the physicality of sound, building up large textures of noise and pitch informed by spectral analysis and timbral exploration.
Max has received guidance from composers Andrew Norman, Georg Friedrich Haas, Zosha Di Castri, Sean Shepherd, Annie Gosfield, and Yiming Wu. His honors include the Juilliard Arthur Friedman prize, the Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, “Sounds of Children’s Rights” International Composition Contest, the American Prize, the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, the Young Composer's Challenge, and the NextNotes Composition awards. He also was selected as an apprentice composer for Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra program. In addition to his works in concert music, Max has also arranged various electronic and acoustic projects and enjoys improvising on the piano. Read more about his Vienna performance here: https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/howard/cng-ho-glenelg-high-musicians-1220-20191231-vwbphbi5ybd6lgihitiohvrzvu-story.html Read more about his music here:
ResearchIntern/Mentorship, 2018-2019
Under advisor and composer Wu Yiming, Max completed a yearlong study into music aesthetics and interpretations of music.
ASPIRE Internship, 2019-2020
At the John's Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Max worked on a project investigating software-defined radar and their applicability in UAV detection systems with mentor and engineer James Conroy. Max is continuing his work at JHUAPL in a current technical internship. |
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