Prize Recipient

2022 Barlow Prize Winner

Bobby Ge is a Chinese-American composer and avid collaborator who seeks to create vivid emotional journeys that navigate boundaries between genre and medium. He has created multimedia projects with the Space Telescope Science Institute, painters collective Art10Baltimore, the Scattered Players Theater Company, and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Ge has received commissions and performances by groups including the Minnesota Orchestra, the New York Youth Symphony, the Albany Symphony’s ‘Dogs of Desire,’ the Harbin Symphony Orchestra, Interlochen Arts Academy, Music from Copland House, the Pacific Chamber Orchestra, the Bergamot Quartet, the Boss Street Brass Band, and Mind on Fire. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D at Princeton University as a Naumberg Fellow, and holds degrees from UCBerkeley and the Peabody Conservatory.

The judging panel consisted of the Endowment’s Board of Advisors: Miguel Del Águila, Kevin Anthony, Chen Yi, Benjamin Sabey, and Benjamin Taylor; and four guest judges: Jindong Cai, Elisabet Curbelo Gonzalez, Haruhito Miyagi, and Lynn Vartan. Jerry Hou (Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra), Bryan Kolk (Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra), and Mike Repper (New York Youth Symphony), along with guest judge Jindong Cai, represented the performing consortium in selecting the Barlow Prize.