Profile
Yiheng Yvonne Wu, composer and educator, received a B.A. in Music from Yale University and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Music Composition at UC San Diego. Her instrumental music explores fragmented forms and spatiality, while her research investigates how composer György Ligeti created critical perspectives through his music. Her dissertation, a work for solo piano with large chamber ensemble, explores ways the piano might transcend its percussive nature as its resonant body is extended across the stage by the surrounding instruments. In addition to teaching at the college level, Yvonne has been committed to working with at-risk youth, including tutoring and mentoring middle school girls in New Haven, co-leading a student-created, multi-arts performance project with San Diego high school students, and grant-writing for a nonprofit organization to help homeless teens. As a piano instructor, she has taught students of diverse backgrounds in Brooklyn, Jersey City, and San Diego.
