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Bio
Asher Lurie (b. 2003) is an internationally programmed composer, percussionist, and guitarist born and raised in Dallas, Texas. His orchestral work Precisely was recently recognized as a finalist in the Brevard Music Center Composition Competition. Currently a senior at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, he is studying Music Theory and Composition with Donald Scott Stinson and resident composers Matthias Pintscher and Chen Yi.
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Lurie has collaborated with artists at the soundSCAPE Festival, Cortona Sessions, Brevard Music Festival, and Atlantic Music Festival. His recent projects include compositions for Sandbox Percussion, arx duo, Unheard-of//Ensemble, KHAOS Wind Quintet, and the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Beta Tau Chapter. As the 2025 All-Stamps Composer at the University of Miami, he is writing a piece for the combined Stamps woodwind quintet, brass quintet, string quartet, and jazz quintet.
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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, tension, and relentlessness with warm, dreamy touches emerging from the background.