Lingbo Ma

Lingbo Ma

Composer

Lingbo Ma is a Chinese-born, US-based composer and pianist whose work has been performed in the US, China and Europe. Her recent projects include a music film What's next? (composed, directed and filmed by the composer himself and played by the Attacca Quartet); song cycle Cantos of a Narcissistic Roommate (text by Hannah McDermott); opera in one act MARThA (libretto by John de los Santos) to be premiered by Lowbrow Opera Collective in Seattle in March 2022, and a saxophone concerto to be premiered by the Boston University Concert Band in April 2022. Prior to I have missed you forever, she already worked for DNO in September 2020, when her vocal piece Two Gu Cheng Songs was featured in FAUST [working title]. Lingbo earned her Master of Music at the Juilliard School, and is now pursuing a doctorate at the New England Conservatory. Her mentors for composition are Robert Beaser, Kati Agócs, Michael Gandolfi.

DNO productions: FAUST [working title]

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