Welcome to the Relaunch of DerrickWang.com

May 18, 2010

Welcome to the relaunch of DerrickWang.com.

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Derrick Wang wins BMI Student Composer Award

May 14, 2010

Derrick Wang has been named a winner in the 58th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards, which “recognize superior creative talent” in music composition.

Eleven (11) winners were chosen from throughout the Western Hemisphere. All works were judged under pseudonyms.

Derrick Wang’s BMI award-winning work is the one-act opera ISH.

Awards Chair Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, BMI President and CEO Del Bryant and BMI Foundation President Ralph N. Jackson presented the awards at a reception held on May 14, 2010 at the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel in New York City.

58th Annual BMI Student Composer Award Winners Announced [BMI Foundation]
58th Annual BMI Student Composer Award Winners Announced [BMI]

Derrick Wang chosen to receive BMI Foundation Pete Carpenter Fellowship

May 14, 2010

Derrick Wang has been chosen to receive a BMI Foundation Pete Carpenter Fellowship, which gives aspiring TV and film composers the opportunity to work with the eminent composer Mike Post (NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, Law and Order) at his studio in Los Angeles.

Derrick Wang is featured guest at NYU benefit concert for the China Care Foundation

March 28, 2010 Read the full article →

The Master Builder, a new opera by Derrick Wang, selected for development by American Lyric Theater

December 8, 2009 Read the full article →

Ars Nova Theater presents “A Whole Lotta ISH,” an evening of music by Derrick Wang

November 16, 2008 Read the full article →

Derrick Wang selected as Resident Artist at American Lyric Theater

August 2, 2008 Read the full article →

Derrick Wang’s Valley, Mountain, Sky premieres at Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall and the Shanghai Grand Theatre

July 25, 2008 Read the full article →

Derrick Wang wins Yale’s John Day Jackson Prize in music composition

April 26, 2008 Read the full article →

Derrick Wang wins American Modern Ensemble’s Third Annual Composition Competition

January 23, 2008 Read the full article →

Derrick Wang wins ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award

April 12, 2007 Read the full article →