Lei Liang

Lei Liang (born November 28, 1972, Tianjin, China) is a Chinese-born American composer, living in San Diego, California. He is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego. Liang is the son of musicologists Liang Mao-chun (b. 1940) and Cai Liang-yu (b. 1940) and studied piano as a child. He came to the USA in 1990 for further studies, receiving BM and MM degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, both with academic honors and distinction in performance, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.