News
Dec. 2011
Ashley was chosen as a Finalist of the International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2011 for her composition Lost Touch With Oneself.Oct. 2011
A new work for solo piano commissioned by the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music will be premiered by Jenny Q Chai at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall on April 19th, 2012.Sep. 2011
Ashley was named the recipient of the ASCAPlus Award for 2011-2012 by the ASCAP foundation. This award program is for writer members whose catalogs have prestige value for which they would not otherwise be compensated.Aug. 2011
Lost Touch With Oneself will be performed by the MIVOS Quartet with video made by visual artist Alice Grassi as part of the HellHOT! New Music Festival on Aug. 20th at 9:00pm in the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong.Lost Touch With Oneself will be performed by the MIVOS Quartet with video made by visual artist Alice Grassi at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory on Aug. 23rd at 7:30pm in the Conservatory Orchestra Hall, Singapore.
Jul. 2011
Lost Touch With Oneself will be performed by the Bowdoin International Music Festival fellows as part of the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music on Jul. 28th at 7:30pm in Studzinski Hall, Brunswick, ME.Jun. 2011
Hidden Light will be premiered at the Music11 Festival by Matt Albert, Andi Hemmenway, Katrina Leshan, Kerrith Livengood in the Hindemith Foundation in Blonay, Switzerland.Apr. 2011
Ashley's DMA composition recital featuring four premieres is on Apr. 3rd at 5:30pm in the Smith Recital Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.Mar. 2011
Ashley will participate in the Bowdoin International Music Festival this summer in Maine. She will be working with composer Robert Beaser.Feb. 2011
Ashley will participate in the Music11 Festival this summer in Blonay, Switzerland. She will be working with composers David Lang, Joel Hoffman, and Matthias Pintscher, and will be writing an ensemble piece for the fellows and member of eighth blackbird.Ashley is selected as first runner-up in Fast Forward Austin's call for scores.
Ashley will be performing as part of the Astral Interactive Improvisation group on Feb. 20th at 3pm at the Krannert Art Museum, featuring interactive visual effect and sound processing with the installation.
Jan. 2011
Ashley and Jenny Q Chai are the winners of the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music's fourth annual Pianist/Composer Commissioning Project.Retrogradable Dilution will be performed by MIVOS Quartet during their Italy tour on March 3rd at 8:45pm at Villa Romano, Via San Tommaso 8, Case di Manzano, Udine, Italy.
Oct. 2010
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Rejection is broadcast on WNYC New Sounds hosted by John Schaefer as part of the Unconventional Piano Works program. You can listen to it here.
Sep. 2010
Ashley is the winner of the 2010 Award of Literature and Art Competition (Taiwan)
MIVOS Quartet plays Retrogradable Dilution on Sep 27th at 8pm at Most Wanted Fine Art Retrogradable Dilution will be performed by MIVOS Quartet on Sep 22nd at 8pm at the Ward Studio as their season opener.
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Rejection is included in pianist Jenny Chai's newly released CD "New York Love Song" and is now available on amazon, cdbaby, and iTunes.
Jun. 2010
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Rejection will be performed by Edward Whelan on Jun 4th in St. Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, UK as part of the International Sound Exchange project.
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Rejection received a review in the NYTimes by Allan Kozinn.
"Sudden starting and stopping proved an unlikely propulsion technique: Ashley Wang’s “Intimate Rejection,” a solo piano work (played with consummate gracefulness by Eric Huebner) that closed the Signal program, used it, too, in a gentle, Feldmanesque way."
Ashley received the Encore grant from American Composers Forum for the performance of Retrogradable Dilution by the MIVOS quartet in the 2010-2011 season