Dai Wei is the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s 2024-25 Sound Investment Composer.
Dai Wei has been selected as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s 2024-25 Sound Investment Composer. Wei will compose a new work for LACO, with Music Director Jaime Martín conducting its world premiere on the final orchestral programs of the season. Wei, who is also an experimental vocalist and Khoomei throat singer, appeared with LACO last October in the West Coast premiere of her Invisible Portals. Her piece for chamber orchestra, multi-channel voices, and electronics, Invisible Portals, co-commissioned by American Composers Orchestra, Michigan Philharmonic, LACO, and ROCO, premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2022. Recent and upcoming events include a multimedia work commissioned by Kronos Quartet and pipa virtuoso Wu Man, two chamber orchestra pieces for the Albany Symphony, and a multichannel vocal and string quartet piece for the Ying Quartet. Her music has been commissioned and performed by major orchestras across the U.S. as well as Bang on a Can and Alarm Will Sound. Dai Wei is currently pursuing her doctorate in music composition at Princeton University. After finishing her B.A. in composition at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in her native China, she earned an M.M. in composition at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
