Asher Lurie
Asher Lurie (b. 2003) is an internationally recognized composer, percussionist, and guitarist from Dallas, Texas. He is the winner of the 2025 Tribeca New Music Young Composer Competition and a finalist in competitions including The American Prize, musicON Composition Competition, Brevard Music Center Composition Competition, and The Sound Ensemble Composition Competition. Lurie has worked with Sandbox Percussion, Unheard-of//Ensemble, arx duo, Silver Bow Sound, Time for Three, and Pathos Trio, and participated in festivals including highSCORE, soundSCAPE, Cortona Sessions, Brevard, and the Atlantic Music Festival. A recent graduate of the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, Lurie studied composition with Scott Stinson and with resident composers Matthias Pintscher, Chen Yi, and Marcos Balter. He is currently pursuing his Master’s in Composition at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he studies with Pierre Jalbert.
Aithér (2025) for mezzo-soprano and cello - Asher Lurie
All That Remained Was Time (2025) for cello and piano - Asher Lurie
Vayya'an (2025) for pierrot ensemble - Asher Lurie [score follower]
Vayya'an (2025) for pierrot ensemble - Asher Lurie
CORE (2024) for percussion quartet - Asher Lurie [score follower]
Torque (2025) for Trio Kanon - Asher Lurie [score follower]
Torque (2025) for Trio Kanon - Asher Lurie
Make a Statement (2025) for Time for Three and the Frost All-Stamps Ensemble - Asher Lurie
Time Breach 807B (2024) for the Unheard-of//Ensemble - Asher Lurie
CORE (2024) for percussion quartet - Asher Lurie
Water Swallows You (2024) for string quartet - Asher Lurie
viVid NoThInG (2024) for solo piano - Asher Lurie
Voltage Rip (2024) for electric guitar and fixed media - Asher Lurie
Spun (2024) for solo marimba - Asher Lurie
As Fire Lights the Way (2024) for woodwind quintet - Asher Lurie
Na Drie Dekades (2024) for eight voices - Asher Lurie
CORE (2024) for percussion quartet - Asher Lurie
Built to Burn (2023) for brass quintet - Asher Lurie
Ancora (2024) for solo multi-percussion - Asher Lurie
Incandescence (2022) for string quartet - Asher Lurie
Equilibrium Achieved? (2023) recorded by Sandbox Percussion - Asher Lurie
Evening Song (2023) for mezzo-soprano and piano - Asher Lurie
Precisely Imperfect (2023) for orchestra - Asher Lurie
Four Solos for a Family Movement I: Soft Wind, Morning Dew (2022) for solo marimba - Asher Lurie
Time Warp (2021) for marching snare drum and electronics - Asher Lurie
Lost in Space (2021) for electric guitar, drumset, and electronics - Asher Lurie
Out of the Way (2021) for marching snare drum ensemble - Asher Lurie