Wang Lu’s works have been performed internationally, by ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW, the Cincinnati Symphony, Aspen Music Festival, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Mosaik, the Tapiola Sinfoniatta, Minnesota Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, Orchestre National de Lille, Musiques Nouvelles, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Seattle Modern Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, The Crossing Choir among others. 

Wang Lu received Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond award from American Academy of Arts and Letters (2020), the Berlin Prize in Music Composition (2019) and was a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow. She has received commissions from the Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress and the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Barlow Foundation. 

Wang Lu’s music was programmed on festivals such as the 2023 Musical Nova in Finland, the New York Philharmonic’s 2022 Sound On series and 2014 Biennial, MATA Festival, Cresc. Biennale in Frankfurt, Gaudeamus Music Week, Tanglewood, Cabrillo Music Festival, Beijing Modern, and Pacific festivals in Japan, Mostly Mozart, Aspekte Festival in Salzburg, and the Havana New Music Festival, among others. She has been a resident at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Hermitage Artist Retreat. Collaborators have included poet Ocean Vuong. 

Wang Lu is an Associate Professor of Music at Brown University, after receiving her doctoral degree in composition at Columbia University.

Wang Lu’s portrait albums Urban Inventory (2018), and An Atlas of Time (2020) were released to critical acclaim. 

Wang Lu’s music can be found at: https://www.wanglucomposer.com