Asher Lurie (b. 2003) is an internationally recognized composer, percussionist, and guitarist from Dallas, Texas. His percussion quartet CORE won the 2025 Tribeca New Music Young Composer Competition, and his quartet Time Breach 807B was a finalist in The Sound Ensemble Composition Competition. Recently, his orchestral work Precisely was named a finalist for both the American Prize and the Brevard Music Center Composition Competition.

A senior at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, Lurie studies Music Theory and Composition with Donald Scott Stinson and with resident composers Matthias Pintscher, Chen Yi, and Marcos Balter. He will begin his Master’s in Composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Fall 2025.

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Lurie has collaborated with artists at the soundSCAPE Composition and Performance Exchange, Cortona Sessions, Brevard Music Festival, and Atlantic Music Festival. His other notable projects include compositions for Sandbox Percussion, Unheard-of//Ensemble, arx duo, KHAOS Wind Quintet, and the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Beta Tau Chapter. As the 2025 All-Stamps Composer and winner of the inaugural Stamps Composition Competition, he was commissioned by the Stamps Foundation to write Make a Statement, premiered by the combined Stamps woodwind quintet, brass quintet, string quartet, jazz quintet, and genre-bending trio Time for Three.

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Lurie began his musical journey through lessons in electric guitar and bass with Mick Cervino (bassist for Ritchie Blackmore, K.K. Downing, and Yngwie Malmsteen) where he studied rock and metal music through a neoclassical lens. Inspired by this education and his Jewish heritage, Lurie’s music regularly explores aggression, explosiveness, and relentlessness with lush, dreamy touches emerging from the background.​​