Jue Wang is a pianist and composer based in New York City and Boston. Jue’s compositions often work with multi-media settings. Through presenting raw and physical sonic materials in unusually close-up spaces, her work intends to stimulate a sense of intimacy for the performers and the audience, addressing a dialectic relationship between private and public in a performance. Apart from her sonic experiments, Jue’s recent compositions focus on expanding the visual and the theatrical dimensions of a musical performance. Jue’s explorations include object-oriented performance, magic shows, sound sculptures and visual projections. Her ongoing immersive music theater project series, titled Bedroom Performances, intend to bring all these theatrical and magical elements together in a most immersive way.
Jue’s another focus is to work on experimental music theater performances with children. Her academic research examines children’s relationship to abstract sonic and physical materials in experimental musical works. She seeks more opportunities to bring young performers and young audiences into the realm of experimental music.
Jue has been honored with performances of her music throughout China, United States and Europe by ensembles including Jack Quartet, Tak ensemble, Talea ensemble, Momenta Quartet, Loadbang, TAK Ensemble, Orchestra of the League of Composers, Krulik Quartet. A review by Cleveland Classical in 2012 described her as “having a sensitive ear and original voice … surely someone we will be hearing much about in the future”.
Jue is the founder and the artistic director of It’ s a Secret Performance – an artistic collective that works on immersive music theater performances with multi-media settings. She holds a Ph.D. degree in music from New York University and a Bachler’s degree from Oberlin Conservatory.