Weiyang Ding (b.1998) is a composer who finds beauty, enlightenment, and excitement in everyday absurdities. She writes music hoping to describe, comment on, and share the phenomena she observes with her performers and audiences. Her music is shaped by her perspectives from her time back in architecture study, experiences in teenage pop-rock band, daily human observation, stutter-ness, and her identity as a young Asian woman. Her works span from solo, chamber, and orchestral works in concert music, to recent electronic music and cross-disciplinary collaborations such as physical theater, where she finds passion in exploring the possibilities in the interactive art making process.

Weiyang’s works have been performed in the US, Europe, and China in venues like The Performing Arts Library in Lincoln Center, the Stone, Arts on Site, and The Hindemith Music Centre. Her music has also been presented at festivals including New Music On the Point, Valencia International Performing Arts Summer Festival, SoundSCAPE, and Divergent Studio. She has had the opportunities to work with renowned groups such as JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Loadbang Ensemble, Nstrument Lab curated by Levy Lorenzo, and a physical theater group curated by Cara Hagan. Additionally, she is a core member of a New York based composer-performer group called The Big Lemon Collective.

Her recent projects include Too Many Dudes, a movement-based dance collaboration featuring motion-sensor technology, premiered at The Stone; Headless Fly, a theatrical work exploring extremes of form and trombone technique, premiered by the Loadbang Ensemble; and Five Mini Dramas of Human Observation, a string quartet for four players performing together on a single cello. The latter was premiered by the Mivos Quartet and named a finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award.

Weiyang is currently a post-master student at Mannes School of Music, pursuing a Professional Studies Diploma in Composition under the guidance of Huang Ruo. She holds a Master’s degree in Composition from the Mannes School of Music as well, and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Hunan University.