Xi Wang

A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, she is Associate Professor of Music Composition and Theory at the Meadows School of the Arts.

[1] In 2001, she emigrated to the United States, where she obtained her Master of Music degree at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and she continued her graduate studies at Cornell University, where she obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts degree and won the 2006-2007 Robbins Family Prize in Music Composition.

[3][1] In 2009, she became part of the faculty of Southern Methodist University,[4] where she eventually became Associate Professor of Music Composition and Theory at the Meadows School of the Arts.

[1] In addition to teaching, she also works as a composer and pianist,[3] with her genre being Asian-Western fusion music.

[1][5] In 2015, her composition Tibet Fantasia, one of many inspired by Tibetan music, premiered at Dallas City Performance Hall with the cooperation of local music ensemble Voices of Change.