Baldwin Giang
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Baldwin Giang is an internationally performed composer, pianist and multimedia creator and educator. Giang received the Samuel Barber Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. His work has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Center in Chicago and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, as well as by ensembles and organizations including the Louisville Orchestra, National Sawdust Ensemble, New York Youth Symphony, Civic Orchestra of Chicago and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra.
He served as composer-in-residence for the Louisville Orchestra from 2024–2025 and was a nominee and finalist for the Gaudeamus Award. His compositions have also been recognized by the ASCAP Foundation, Fondation Maurice Ravel and numerous national and international music organizations.
His work aims to empower communities of audiences and performers by creating concert experiences that are opportunities for collective wonder and judgment. Described as "taut and cohesive ... challenging and rewarding" (Cacophony), “intensely evocative” (Midbrow), and a “multimedia masterpiece [多媒体力作]” (Central Conservatory Alumni Association News), Giang's music has been performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Center in Chicago and the Smithsonian Museum (Washington, D.C.).
He has received commissions from the National Sawdust Ensemble, Metropolis Ensemble, New York Youth Symphony, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Grossman Ensemble, Loadbang, Playground Ensemble, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Vital Strategies, Fondation Maurice Ravel, Extended Music Collective, Music from Copland House and Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia. Additional collaborators have included the New Jersey Symphony, Albany Symphony, Ensemble Intercontemporain, International Contemporary Ensemble, Riot Ensemble, New European Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, orkest de ereprijs, JACK Quartet, Spektral Quartet, Arditti Quartet, Longleash, Ekmeles, Sandbox Percussion, Da Capo Chamber Players, Blackbox Ensemble, ChamberQUEER, Quince Vocal Ensemble, Rage Thormbones, So Much Hot Air, Ensemble But What About, Metallicum, unassisted fold and Verdant Vibes.
The international and domestic festivals that have presented his work include: IRCAM’s Manifeste (France), Ecole d’arts Americains de Fontainebleau (France), Concours International de Piano d’Orléans (France), Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Netherlands), 24th Annual Young Composers' Meeting (Netherlands), Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi (Italy), Festival Contrasti (Italy), Ostrava Days (Czech Republic), Klexos (Spain), Tanglewood, Aspen Music Festival, Princeton’s Edward T. Cone Institute, and Yale in Norfolk’s New Music Workshop.
Giang has been awarded the Henri Lazarof International Commission Prize, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer and Leo Kaplan Awards, Fondation Maurice Ravel’s Prix Ravel, Musica Prospettiva Competition’s First Prize, Gaudeamus Award nomination, and a Fulbright Arts Fellowship (Taiwan). He has been invited to give lectures on his compositions at Yale School of Music, Yale University Department of Music, University of California-Davis, University of Washington, University of Louisville, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Spazio Supernova (Rome). He was a composer-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris for summer 2026, and composer-in-residence at Mahler Lewitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy in 2024.
Giang earned a doctorate in music composition as a Division of Humanities Fellow from the University of Chicago, a master of arts in music composition as a Regents Fellow from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts with honors in music and political science from Yale University. Previously, he served as assistant professor of music and director of new music and creative innovation at Pacific Lutheran University.
