We asked our 2022–23 fellows—Hannah Chen, Lucy Chen, Lili Masoudi, Gabrielle Smith, Elaina Stuppler, and Isabelle Tseng—what inspired the pieces they have been working on with their mentors this year. Read on to see where they each found inspiration.

The next annual Luna Lab Festival will be held from June 6-10, 2023. The 2022–23 fellows will travel to New York City to participate in five days of workshops, master classes, networking events, performances, and more, culminating in a performance of their world premiere compositions.

In May 2023 Luna Lab alumni Madeline Clara Cheng (2020-21) and Caleb Palka (2017-18) will travel to Bergen for workshops with young female and nonbinary Norwegian composers, led by mentor Therese Ulvo. In addition, both Maddie and Caleb will have their works premiered on festival concerts.

Congratulations to 2021–22 Luna Lab fellow Alicia Erlandson, who was just awarded the 2022 G. Schirmer Prize for Luna Composition Lab for her string quintet “Windowpane.”

Today we are thrilled to announce Luna Composition Lab’s 2022–23 season. Read on to learn more about our new class of fellows, honorable mentions, mentors, upcoming events, and more.

Twenty-five alumni of the Luna Lab Fellowship have been commissioned to write works for the Cincinnati Symphony’s May Festival in 2023. The project—25 for 25: A New Time for Choral Music—honors the May Festival’s storied history of commissioning new works…

In June 2022, Luna Lab Fellowship alumni Maya Miro Johnson (2017-18), KiMani Bridges (2019-20), and Zola Saadi-Klein (2020-21) will travel to Bergen, Norway with composer-in-residence Missy Mazzoli to take part in a week of concerts, masterclasses and workshops at the…

Luna Lab’s 2021–2022 season concludes in an expanded, in-person Festival that will function as a belated celebration of the program’s fifth anniversary, opening its doors to both current Fellows and alumni. Festival highlights will include: Solar Flare, the culminating performance…