Brayden Meng
Brayden Meng
Composer Brayden Meng (b. 2005) has served as the youngest artist-in-residence at the Aranya Theater Festival twice as well as at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, where he received the Wagner Fellowship for Music and Performance Art. For his compositions, Meng has won first prize of the 2024 Berkeley Piano Club Emerging Artist Grant, the 2024 ISU Music Now Contest, and received honors like the 2025 Tribeca Emerging Composer award and was a Golden Hornet Smackdown semifinalist. Meng has also premiered his own violin concerto at the Palladium Center for the Arts and scored award-winning films working with directors like Kevin Jin Kwan Kim.
After founding WHAM (We Have All Music) organization, Meng is now working on two new creative organizations while pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music studying with Grammy Award winning composer Mason Bates.
Composer Brayden Meng (b. 2005) has served as the youngest artist-in-residence at the Aranya Theater Festival twice as well as at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, where he received the Wagner Fellowship for Music and Performance Art. For his compositions, Meng has won first prize of the 2024 Berkeley Piano Club Emerging Artist Grant, the 2024 ISU Music Now Contest, and received honors like the 2025 Tribeca Emerging Composer award and was a Golden Hornet Smackdown semifinalist. Meng has also premiered his own violin concerto at the Palladium Center for the Arts and scored award-winning films working with directors like Kevin Jin Kwan Kim.
After founding WHAM (We Have All Music) organization, Meng is now working on two new creative organizations while pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music studying with Grammy Award winning composer Mason Bates.
Brayden Meng
Composer Brayden Meng (b. 2005) has served as the youngest artist-in-residence at the Aranya Theater Festival twice as well as at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, where he received the Wagner Fellowship for Music and Performance Art. For his compositions, Meng has won first prize of the 2024 Berkeley Piano Club Emerging Artist Grant, the 2024 ISU Music Now Contest, and received honors like the 2025 Tribeca Emerging Composer award and was a Golden Hornet Smackdown semifinalist. Meng has also premiered his own violin concerto at the Palladium Center for the Arts and scored award-winning films working with directors like Kevin Jin Kwan Kim.
After founding WHAM (We Have All Music) organization, Meng is now working on two new creative organizations while pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music studying with Grammy Award winning composer Mason Bates.