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.