Discipline: Music Composition

Mengmeng Wang

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Madison, WI
MacDowell Fellowships: 2024

Composer Mengmeng Wang has had her work performed around the world at events including ACO Earshort reading, the MATA festival, the SEAMUS 2021 Digital Conference, the concert of Chicago Composer’s Consortium: Experimental Sound Studio, June in Buffalo, the Atlantic Center of the Arts, Glasgow UK, and the Beijing Modern Music Festival.

Her music has been won the 2022 Petrichor International Music Competition and the third prize and an honor award at the first eARTS Digital Audio Competition. Wang was chosen as a residency composer by both Ragdale Foundation and Atlantic Center of the Arts. She has had the privilege of working with a number of ensembles and performers, including Naples Philharmonic, Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Dal Niente and International Contemporary Ensemble.

Studios

Irving Fine

Mengmeng Wang worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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