Graduate Student Details

Anqi Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in Music Theory at Rutgers University and holds a D.M.A. in Piano Performance from Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on contemporary East Asian composition, interculturality, and sound studies, with particular interests in topic theory, timbre, and practices of listening. Her dissertation examines contemporary musical works inspired by China’s Dunhuang cave art tradition, exploring how the visual, spatial, and material histories of Dunhuang are reimagined in contemporary music and how they shape musical thought, form, and listening.