Bobby Ge

About the Artist

Bobby Ge (b. 1996) is a Baltimore-based, Chinese-American composer and pianist raised in Shanghai, China. His music possesses a strongly dramatic character informed by his love for film, and is influenced by strains of post-minimalism, late romanticism, and elements of high modernity. Ge’s works prioritize rhythm, color, and melodic clarity to form cogent and engaging arcs, weaving together complex polyrhythms, bright and sprightly orchestrations, and memorable melodies. His works have been performed by the UCBerkeley Symphony Orchestra, the Atlantic Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, celli@berkeley, and many student performers. Ge currently is pursuing graduate studies in composition at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, studying with Professor Kevin Puts. As an undergraduate at UCBerkeley, he received the university’s most prestigious prizes in the creative arts, including the Eisner Prize and the David and Diana Menn Memorial Prize, before graduating with departmental Honors under the supervision of his thesis advisor, Professor Cindy Cox. Ge has participated in masterclasses with Richard Danielpour, Du Yun, Pierre Jalbert, Amy Beth Kirsten, Christopher Dobrian, Zhou Long, George Tsontakis, and David Ludwig.  A dedicated educator, Ge has taught and tutored music theory, composition, and piano for several years, and earned a coveted position as a graduate assistant in theory at the Peabody Institute. In his undergraduate career, Ge presided over UCBerkeley’s official Undergraduate Composer’s Club, curating semesterly student composer concerts, inviting professional composers to lecture, premiering others’ new music, and finally, establishing a mentorship program with younger composers. He believes firmly in the value of music composition as an expressive and uniting force, and is eager to share this vision with others around him.