New Music Premieres

Featured Composer: Julie Zhu

About Julie Zhu

Julie Zhu is a composer, artist, and carillonist.  Her work is conceptual and transdisciplinary, operating on an expansive definition of algorithm.  Zhu has written for and performed with various contemporary music ensembles and soloists, including Wu Wei, Marco Fusi, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, JACK quartet, Quasar, Line Upon Line, Semblance, and Dal Niente. In the last year, premieres have been presented by Radio France, Sansusī Festival, nonclassical, 3537, and Fondation Royaumont.  

Zhu recently completed her DMA in music composition from the Department of Music and Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University and is currently a research fellow at the University of Michigan on music and AI. She is also a graduate of the Cursus in Computer Music at IRCAM in Paris, Hunter College (MFA in combined media), the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium (Licentiate), and Yale University (BA mathematics, BA art).

Learn more about Julie Zhu.

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Hear us perform Julie Zhu’s work, fulgura frango, on December 22, 2023.
(see concert schedule)

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About New Music Premieres

New Music Premieres promotes contemporary classical music. Great art illuminates the time in which it was written. While the most popular classical music was composed long ago, there are many great works being written today. Every year Anchorage Chamber Music Festival selects a contemporary work to be performed at one of the festival concerts.

Compositions premiered:

Kenji Bunch: String Circle
Vladimir Scolnic: Tensions…Wonder
R. Michael Daugherty: “Quem Genuit Maria”
Nathan Prillaman: Funk
Phillip Sink: Selections from Leave a Comment
Douglas Hofstadter: Good People All and Little Prelude in e min
Karalyn Schubring: Ignite
Frank Stemper: Good Night Moon
Jon Jeffrey Grier: The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox
Lowell Liebermann: Romance, Etude and Chorale