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Lucy Chen (age 20) is a composer, pianist, and violinist from Potomac, Maryland who is currently a junior at Stanford University. She has studied composition with Wang Lu and Yiming Wu, and her works have been recognized in the Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, BMI Student Composer Awards, National Young Composer Challenge, and more. Lucy was a composer apprentice for Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra program under Sean Shepherd, and she’s premiered three orchestral pieces with the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra under Kristofer Sanz. At Stanford, Lucy composed and music directed an original musical, as well as composed music for Stanford’s FashionX Runway, the annual Gaieties musical, and other student-led ensembles.