Lei Liang

Composer Lei Liang is also an educator and an ethnomusicologist who has worked to preserve and write about Chinese and other Asian traditions. His compositional career began even before he reached his teenage years. Liang has attained considerable exposure on recordings in his adopted U.S., earning leading compositional honors in that country. In 2025, the album Lei Liang: Dui appeared on the Islandia Music label. Liang (his family name) was born in Tianjin, China, on November 28, 1972. His parents were both musicologists and as the Cultural Revolution in China ended, he was ...