Jen Wang (b. 1980) is a Los Angeles-based composer whose work combines a love of spacious timbral explorations, contrapuntal melodic lines, and centering the relationships between music makers in live performance. She is executive director of People Inside Electronics (PIE), a presenter and performing ensemble dedicated to electroacoustic music. Currently, she is working on a multimedia collaboration with PIE exploring themes of migration and home, as well as an opera about a historical early-20th century conspiracy theorist who believed there was a city of gold beneath LA.

Here in LA, Jen has recently written for Synchromy and C3LA as well as People Inside Electronics; her past commissions also include works for Transient Canvas, Talea, Rootstock, and Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. In the San Francisco, she founded and co-directed Wild Rumpus (now Ninth Planet), a chamber ensemble dedicated to new music from 2011-2016 and also served as a curator for the Center for New Music, San Francisco’s new music community center. She is the recipient of a Staubach Honorarium from the Internationale Musikinstitut Darmstadt, and has also held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Millay Colony for the Arts.