Baldwin Giang

Assistant Professor of Music; Director of New Music and Creative Innovation

Email: baldwin.giang@plu.edu

Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 111

Website: //baldwingiang.com

  • Professional
  • Biography

Education

  • PhD, Music Composition, The University of Chicago, 2025
  • MA, Music Composition, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2017
  • BA, Music and Political Science, Yale University, 2014

Areas of Emphasis or Expertise

  • Music Composition, Electronic Music, Music Theory, Human-Robot Interaction

Responsibilities

Composition Lessons, Class Composition I and II, Ear Training, Electronic Music

Accolades

  • Charles Ives Scholarship, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2025
  • Tanglewood Music Festival - Patricia Plum Wylde Composer Fellowship, 2025
  • Louisville Orchestra - Resident Composer (2024-2025), 2024
  • Samuel Barber Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, 2023
  • Aspen Music Festival - Composer Fellowship, 2023
  • ASCAP Leo Kaplan Award, 2022
  • ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, 2022
  • Fulbright Fellowship, United States Fulbright Foundation, Taiwan, 2022
  • IRCAM Manifeste - Selected to write new work for Ensemble Intercontemporain, 2022
  • New Jersey Symphony Cone Institute - Composer Fellowship, 2022
  • Loadbang Commission Competition – Winner, 2022
  • Gaudeamus Award – Nominee, 2021
  • Copland House - CULTIVATE Composer fellowship, 2020
  • Yale in Norfolk - New Music Workshop Composer Fellowship, 2019
  • Prix Ravel – First Prize in Composition, Fondation Maurice Ravel, 2018
  • New York Youth Symphony First Music Competition – Winner, 2018
  • David Halstead Prize, University of Pennsylvania, 2018
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Civic Orchestra Composers Project – Winner, 2016
  • Beekman Cannon Friends of Music Prize, Yale University, 2014
  • Abraham Beekman Cox Award, Yale University, 2013

Biography

Baldwin Giang (b. 1992, Philadelphia) is an internationally performed composer, pianist, and multimedia creator. He is the recipient of the Samuel Barber Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was composer-in-residence for the Louisville Orchestra from 2024-2025. His work aims to empower communities of audiences and performers by creating concert experiences that are opportunities for collective wonder and judgment. Described as “taut and cohesive…challenging and rewarding” (Cacophony), Baldwin’s music has been performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Center in Chicago, and the Smithsonian Museum (DC).
He has received commissions from the National Sawdust Ensemble, Metropolis Ensemble, New York Youth Symphony, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Grossman Ensemble, Playground Ensemble, Loadbang, Fondation Maurice Ravel, Extended Music Collective, and Music from Copland House. Additional collaborators have included the New Jersey Symphony, Albany Symphony, Ensemble Intercontemporain, International Contemporary Ensemble, Riot Ensemble, New European Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, orkest de ereprijs, Arditti Quartet, Longleash, Ekmeles, Sandbox Percussion, and Blackbox Ensemble.

The international and domestic festivals that have presented his work include: IRCAM’s Manifeste (France), Ecole d’arts Americains de Fontainebleau (France), Concours International de Piano d’Orléans (France), Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Netherlands), 24th Annual Young Composers’ Meeting (Netherlands), Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi (Italy), Festival Contrasti (Italy), Ostrava Days (Czech Republic), Klexos (Spain), Aspen Music Festival, Princeton’s Edward T. Cone Institute, and Yale in Norfolk’s New Music Workshop. Baldwin has been awarded ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer and Leo Kaplan Awards, Fondation Maurice Ravel’s Prix Ravel, Musica Prospettiva Competition’s First Prize, Gaudeamus Award nomination, and a Fulbright Arts Fellowship (Taiwan).

Baldwin is a graduate of Yale University, earning a B.A. with honors in both music and political science, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, earning a M.A. as a Regents Fellow, and the University of Chicago, earning a PhD as a Division of Humanities Fellow.