Bobby Ge

“The orchestra has been my favorite medium ever since I was a child, and I would love the opportunity to compose music meant specifically for the edification of youth.”

Biography

Bobby Ge (b. 1996) is a Baltimore-based composer and avid collaborator who seeks to create vivid journeys exploring tensions between the timeless and the well-defined. He has created multimedia projects with painters collective Art10Baltimore, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, the Scattered Players Theater Company, and writer/poet Jenny C. Lares. His works have been performed across four continents by groups including the Harbin Symphony Orchestra, the Concerto Chamber Orchestra, Pique Collective, the Future Symphony Competition Orchestra, the Atlantic Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, and celli@berkeley. Ge is a composer-in-residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts in October 2020. He was shortlisted for the 2019 Zemlinsky Prize, and has further received recognition from various competitions and organizations including the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the Chelsea Symphony Orchestra, Calliope, the International Music Competition of Harbin, the RED NOTE Composition Competition, the Metropolitan Youth Symphony, and the Future Symphony Competition.