Wen Liu

Wen Liu (born 1988) is acomposer and media artist, based in Vienna since 2005. She is recipient of the2012 ‘Talent Prize’ given by Austria-1/ORF, and since then has work publications by Universal Edition (UE),and awarded the Förderungspreis for Music from the city of Vienna 2015. She is selected for the ‘in Vivo Dance’together with Alban Richard and Ensemble Intercontemporain at IRCAM ManiFeste festival, commissioned byAsianArt ensemble(Berlin),composition premier at Konzerthaus Berlin, by Steirischer Herbst Musikprotokoll2015 for Ensemble Recherche, by Biennal Taschenopernfestival Salzburg for a chamber opera, by China RadioSymphony Orchestra for Wen Liu portrait concert 2014, by KRKA Wind Orchestra Slovenia for a doubleconcerto with saxophone soloists Simon Sirec and Danijel Lauko,premiered in December 2013. More

commissions and performances from various ensembles including Surplus Ensemble(Germany), Österreichische

Ensemble für Neue Musik, Phace Ensemble(Austria), Sydney Contemporary Orchestra, Vienna Saxophonic

Orchestra, Thelema Trio(Belgium), Trio Fidelio(Austria), Asian Contemporary Ensemble(Singapore), Ensemble

Platypus(Austria), Signum Saxophone Quartet(Germany), Duo Aliada(Austria), and soloists such as Krassimir

Sterev,Lars Mlekusch,Matthias Bauer,etc.

She has been selected for 'Composer-in-Resident' in Johannesburg(South Africa), Atlantic Music

Festival(US),Theater Reutlingen Die Tonne(Germany) and Dian Red Kechil International Composers

Resident(Singapore). August 2010,Wen was invited to give a lecture about contemporary music and composition

at the Universitas Pelita Harapan Jakarta(Indonesia).

Wen has won many composition prizes, such as first prize in the 2012 International Composition Competition

‘Francisco Escudero’ – with work publication by Premera Edicion Spain, 2010 Theodor-Körner Fonds, under the

Patronage of the Austrian President, 2009 Josef Trattner Composition Competition, and 2012 Fidelio Creation

Competition.

Her works have been featured at international festivals, such as Wien Modern 2008, Expo Shanghai 2010,

International Computer Music Conference 2012, Stockholm Fringe Fest (Stoff) 2012, Dimanche Rouge Paris

2012, Herne Hill Music Festival London 2012, Hörfest - Austrian Festival for Contemporary Art 2010, Music-

Festival Grafenegg 2009, with percussion soloist David Cossion, under the conduction of Tan Dun, Je