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admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:28:43 +0000

Welcome to the relaunch of DerrickWang.com.

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Streamlined format with a new Music Player
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Three brand-new recordings from the new musical Prom
- featuring Broadway talent Lauren Lim Jackson (Finian’s Rainbow)

News about Derrick Wang’s latest awards:
- BMI Student Composer Award — for the one-act opera ISH
- BMI Pete Carpenter Fellowship — in TV/film scoring

Updated details about current projects:
- Prom, a new musical
- The Master Builder, a new opera

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Derrick Wang wins BMI Student Composer Award

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:00:15 +0000

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

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:21 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:00:28 +0000

On March 26, 2010, Derrick Wang performed as the featured guest at NYU’s YUAN 10: MOT10N, a benefit for the China Care Foundation, which provides medical care to orphaned children in China.

His performance included a solo-piano version of his orchestral work Valley, Mountain, Sky (originally premiered at Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall and at the Shanghai Grand Theatre). An excerpt from his performance was featured on SinoVision on March 28, 2010.

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

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:39:54 +0000

The Master Builder, a new opera by Derrick Wang, has been selected for development by American Lyric Theater. A workshop and reading of The Master Builder is planned for the 2010-2011 season in New York City.

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

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:25 +0000

On November 16, 2008, Ars Nova Theater presented “A Whole Lotta ISH,” an evening of music by Derrick Wang, as part of its inaugural A.N.T. FEST.

The program featured award-winning works including:

ISH, an opera in ten minutes
- Winner of the BMI Student Composer Award
Playground for string quartet
- Winner of the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award
Hors d’oeuvres for clarinet and piano
- Winner of the American Modern Ensemble Composition Competition
excerpts from the Cello Sonata
- Winner of the John Day Jackson Prize

Derrick Wang selected as Resident Artist at American Lyric Theater

admin — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:38:04 +0000

Derrick Wang has been selected as a Resident Artist for American Lyric Theater’s 2008-2009 Composer/Librettist Development Program (CLDP), the nation’s only operatic young artist program dedicated to writers.

Residencies were offered to eight artists in the U.S. for the 2008-2009 season. Of the eight artists, two (of which Wang is one) will be writing both music and text for their residency.

At the end of the residency, selected artists will be invited to have full-length works developed by American Lyric Theater.

The 2008-2009 CLDP is led by Lawrence Edelson (Producing Artistic Director, American Lyric Theater), Mark Adamo (composer-librettist of Little Women and Lysistrata), and Cori Ellison (Dramaturg and Director of Supertitles, New York City Opera).

American Lyric Theater’s Composer/Librettist Development Program

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

admin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:59:17 +0000

Derrick Wang’s Valley, Mountain, Sky, an orchestral piece based on Chinese folk songs, was premiered by the Yale Philharmonia to a sold-out house at Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall on July 22, 2008. On July 25, 2008, it received its Shanghai premiere at the Shanghai Grand Theatre.

Sellout at the Forbidden City [Musicathlon]

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

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:53:37 +0000

Derrick has been named winner of Yale’s John Day Jackson Prize in music composition for his Sonata for Cello and Piano.

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

admin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:07:12 +0000

Derrick Wang is named winner of the American Modern Ensemble’s Third Annual Composition Competition for his work Hors d’oeuvres for clarinet and piano.

Hors d’oeuvres will be given its New York premiere by the American Modern Ensemble at its “Food and Music” concerts on May 17 and 18, 2008 at the Tenri Cultural Institute of New York.

The American Modern Ensemble Composition Competition is open to American composers age 35 or younger. Submitted works are judged under pseudonyms. One winner is selected each year. The winner receives a cash prize, a New York premiere performance of the winning work, and an archival recording.

American Modern Ensemble: Composition Competition