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 recent graduate of the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, Lurie studied Music Theory and Composition with Donald Scott Stinson and with resident composers Matthias Pintscher, Chen Yi, and Marcos Balter. He is currently pursuing his Master’s in Composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where he studies with Pierre Jalbert.
Lurie has collaborated with artists at the highSCORE Festival, 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, Trio Kanon, KHAOS Wind Quintet, and Silver Bow Sound. 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.
