Biography:

Edward Y. Lu is a sound artist, visual artist, toymaker, and composer of new music. His works are directly inspired by the organic forms, sounds, and processes of the natural biosphere, both sonic and visual. Described as vivid, surreal, and breathtaking, with a kind of ear for the ethereal, his music is marked by subtlety, elegance, timbral fragility, and nuanced contortions. His visual language follows a similar thinking. 

 

In 2025, he won the Society for New Music New York Federation of Music Clubs/Brian Israel Prize with leaf litter, which was later selected for the 2026 University of Georgia (UGA) New Music Festival Call for Scores. In 2026, he won the Stare at the Sun Call for Scores with November Night. He was a semifinalist (2025) and finalist (2026) in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, a finalist in the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir Call for Scores (2025), a semifinalist in the C4 IGNITE Competition (2025), and an Emerging Composer in the Tribeca New Music Young Composer Competition (2025).

 

He has received commissioning from the American Guild of Organists. His works have been performed at festivals such as Connecticut Summerfest, Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, New Music on the Point, and UGA New Music Festival. He has worked with ensembles and organizations such as ~Nois, Popebama, Imani Winds, Society for New Music, Stare at the Sun, Syracuse University (SU) Singers, SU Contemporary Performance Lab, and Ulysses Quartet. 

 

In 2026, he was awarded B.Mus Summa Cum Laude at Syracuse University with distinctions as University Scholar, College of Visual And Performing Arts (VPA) Scholar, and Remembrance Scholar, majoring in composition and music history and cultures. He is currently pursuing his masters degree in composition at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University.