Sam Wu

Sam Wu's music "abounds in delicate colours, wisps of sound and sylvan textures" (Gramophone).

Selected for the Tasmanian Symphony's Australian Composers' School, winner of an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the New York Youth Symphony's Jon Deak First Music Commission, Sam Wu also received Harvard's Robert Levin Prize and Juilliard's Palmer Dixon Prize.

Sam’s collaborations span five continents, notably with the orchestras of Philadelphia, New Jersey, Minnesota, Sarasota, Columbus, Melbourne, Tasmania, Macao, and Shanghai, the New York City Ballet, Sydney International Piano Competition, the Lontano, Parker, Argus, ETHEL, and icarus Quartets, conductors Osmo Vänskä, Marin Alsop, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Dina Gilbert, and Benjamin Northey, and sheng virtuoso Wu Wei.

From Melbourne, Australia, Sam Wu holds degrees from Harvard, Juilliard, and Rice. He is on faculty at Whitman College as their Visiting Assistant Professor in Theory and Composition.

Sam Wu: Travelogues (2025), sonata for violin and piano [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Travelogues (2025), sonata for violin and piano [SCORE]
Sam Wu: cities of ash and dust (2024), for solo piano [SCORE]

Sam Wu: cities of ash and dust (2024), for solo piano [SCORE]
Sam Wu: The Painter on Silk (2025), for treble choir and piano

Sam Wu: The Painter on Silk (2025), for treble choir and piano
Sam Wu: Hydrangea (2025), song for soprano and piano

Sam Wu: Hydrangea (2025), song for soprano and piano
Sam Wu: Hydrangea (2025), song for soprano and piano [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Hydrangea (2025), song for soprano and piano [SCORE]
Sam Wu: The Painter on Silk (2025), for treble choir and piano [SCORE]

Sam Wu: The Painter on Silk (2025), for treble choir and piano [SCORE]
Sam Wu: aerial silk roads (2025), for orchestra [SCORE]

Sam Wu: aerial silk roads (2025), for orchestra [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Wind Map (2019), for orchestra [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Wind Map (2019), for orchestra [SCORE]
Sam Wu: dolphin song (2013), for piano trio [SCORE]

Sam Wu: dolphin song (2013), for piano trio [SCORE]
Sam Wu: The Building of a City (2023), for orchestra [SCORE]

Sam Wu: The Building of a City (2023), for orchestra [SCORE]
Sam Wu: ...the end of snow is nirvāṇa (2017), for solo harp [SCORE]

Sam Wu: ...the end of snow is nirvāṇa (2017), for solo harp [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Eagle Huntress (2024), for string orchestra [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Eagle Huntress (2024), for string orchestra [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Glass Terminals (2024), sonata for oboe and piano [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Glass Terminals (2024), sonata for oboe and piano [SCORE]
Sam Wu: cetacean songs (2023), concerto for cello and sinfonietta [SCORE]

Sam Wu: cetacean songs (2023), concerto for cello and sinfonietta [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Weather Model (2023), for mezzo-soprano and string quartet [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Weather Model (2023), for mezzo-soprano and string quartet [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Teasdale Songs (2017), for SATB choir [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Teasdale Songs (2017), for SATB choir [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Ocean Moons (2023), for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Ocean Moons (2023), for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists [SCORE]
Sam Wu: aerial silk roads (2021), for solo cello [SCORE]

Sam Wu: aerial silk roads (2021), for solo cello [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Hyperlooping (2019), for piano four hands [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Hyperlooping (2019), for piano four hands [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Waterways (2018), for solo violin [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Waterways (2018), for solo violin [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Hydrosphere (2022), for orchestra [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Hydrosphere (2022), for orchestra [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Songs across the Aeons《唐詩神遊》 (2021), for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Songs across the Aeons《唐詩神遊》 (2021), for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Aria (2022), for solo piano [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Aria (2022), for solo piano [SCORE]
Sam Wu: [alien forests] (2019), for string quartet [SCORE]

Sam Wu: [alien forests] (2019), for string quartet [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Sheng Sheng Man《聲聲慢》 (2021), for SSAA voices and piano [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Sheng Sheng Man《聲聲慢》 (2021), for SSAA voices and piano [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Tiny Forests (2021), for solo piano [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Tiny Forests (2021), for solo piano [SCORE]
Sam Wu: Mass Transit (2022), for piano quintet [SCORE]

Sam Wu: Mass Transit (2022), for piano quintet [SCORE]
Sam Wu: cetacean songs (2023), concerto for cello and sinfonietta

Sam Wu: cetacean songs (2023), concerto for cello and sinfonietta
Sam Wu: Mass Transit (2022), for piano quintet

Sam Wu: Mass Transit (2022), for piano quintet
Sam Wu: Songs across the Aeons (2021), for mezzo-soprano and ensemble

Sam Wu: Songs across the Aeons (2021), for mezzo-soprano and ensemble