Harnessing the chugging, energetic sounds of contemporary postmodernism as a starting point, Andres R. Luz develops his artistic idiom from the legacy of music history stretching back to Medieval and Renaissance stylistic practices up to those of the present-day.
Among the many influences that inform his music, Dr. Luz cites folkloric elements of his Filipino-American heritage which have served as the source inspiration for a number of his works, including the concertante piece for marimba solo and mixed ensemble, bulacan_polymorphic (2011), [Micro/Industrious] for orchestra (2015, rev. 2017), and Bulosan: On American Democracy for Narrator, Wind Symphony, and Fixed Media (2021, rev. 2023). Dr. Luz studied with Jeffrey Miller at California State University, East Bay, in Hayward, CA (B.A. Music, magna cum laude, 2013) and pursued private studies in electroacoustic music with Ian Dicke. Additionally, he has attended master classes with Hannah Lash, P.Q. Phan, Zae Munn, Paul Salerni, Libby Larsen, and Melinda Wagner. Andres Luz completed the Master of Music Composition at the University of Redlands in 2016, having received instruction from Anthony Suter. Andres Luz was also inducted into the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, Sigma Chapter, at the University of Redlands. Dr. Luz also worked as Visiting Assistant Professor in Music Theory and Electronic Music Composition at UR between 2018-2020. Andres Luz earned the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Composition at the University of Georgia, Athens, in April 2022 having studied with Adrian Childs, Peter Van Zandt Lane, and Emily Koh. He served as the Assistant Director of the Dancz Center for New Music and functioned as an instructor of record in the Intro to Music Technology class at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. In 2023, Luz's dissertation composition, BULOSAN: ON AMERICAN DEMOCRACY for Narrator, Wind Symphony, and Fixed Media was the Winner of the American Prize in Composition in the University-Level Wind Ensemble Division, as well as the 2nd Place among Social Justice-Related Works among University-Level compositions submitted that year. His music has been played internationally and by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles. Luz is a member of ASCAP, SEAMUS, Millennium Composers Initiative, Society of Composers, Inc.,
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"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."
--Aaron Copland (1900-1990)