Baldwin Giang

Baldwin Giang (b. 1992) is a composer interested in acoustic and electro-acoustic mediums, whose music aims to empower communities of audiences and performers by renegotiating frameworks of creative ownership. Baldwin is a recent graduate of Yale University, earning a B.A. with Honors in both Music and Political Science. Starting Fall 2015, he will be pursuing a Master's in Music Composition as a Regents Fellow at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His past teachers have included Kathryn Alexander, Konrad Kaczmarek, Michael Klingbeil, and Stephen Gorbos.

At Yale, Baldwin earned the Beekman Cannon Friends Prize awarded for the best senior musical composition, and the Abraham Beekman Cox Prize awarded to the “most promising and gifted composer” in his class. As a winner of the 2015 PARMA composer competition, his piece for orchestra, to remember is always forgetting will be published in their annual anthology of works. Other recent recognition includes honorable mention in the New York Youth Symphony's 2015 First Music Competition.

Baldwin's music has been performed by such celebrated performers as members of the JACK quartet, the Argento Ensemble, the Atlantic Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Theatre of Yale College, mezzosoprano Jennifer Beattie, pianist Adam Marks, and members of the Philadelphia Sinfonia. As a performer, Baldwin is an enthusiastic conductor, music director, collaborative pianist, and electronics engineer.