Anqi Liu
Composer, sound artist Anqi Liu started her formal compositional studies at twenty-three although she began her piano training at age four. Despite this late beginning, her music has been performed across the U.S, Europe, and Asia. Liu experiments with diverse possibilities to expand space and the dimensions of sound. These experiments often lead to challenges that call into question conventional ways of playing or viewing the instruments. She is an improviser playing the piano and modular synthesizers; a photographer to restore transient memories within a piece of paper; a Ph.D. candidate in composition at University of California, San Diego. with research interests of Mongolian long songs as well as using unpredictable sonic materials from nuanced gestures as compositional materials.