Discipline: Music Composition

Jen Wang

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Monrovia, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010

Jen Wang worked on an opera and a monodrama. Her percussion quartet, "Renderings of Things We Couldn't Take Home," was premiered by the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players (Berkeley, CA) and the Iktus Percussion Quartet (New York City).

Studios

MacDowell

Jen Wang worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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