Andrew V. Ly

Andrew V. Ly was born in Kent, WA and grew up in Seattle. He attended Yale College and graduated with distinction in 2007 with a BA in Music. From 2007-2008 he studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Shanghai Conservatory through the U.S. State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship and the Chinese government’s Chinese Cultural Scholarship. He completed his Master’s degree in composition at the Thornton School of Music at USC in 2010 and is currently a PhD candidate in music composition at UC Berkeley. His composition teachers include Stephen Hartke, Donald Crockett, Edmund Campion, Ken Ueno, and Franck Bedrossian. In addition to teaching Harmony and Music Theory at UC Berkeley, he serves on the faculty of the Crowden School and the John Adams Young Composers’ Program. For the 2015-16 academic year he will be in residence at the Universität der Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz as the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Austria.