Michelle Lou

{{short description|American composer and bassist}}

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Michelle Lou is a composer{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2019-in-review/notable-performances-of-2019-and-of-the-decade|title = Notable Performances of 2019 and of the Decade|magazine = The New Yorker|date = 14 December 2019}} and bassist. She won the Rome Prize in 2018.{{Cite web|title=Rome Prize|url=https://www.aarome.org/people/michellelou|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=https://sightlinesmag.org/at-10-line-upon-line-percussion-still-surprises|title = At 10, Line Upon Line Percussion Still Surprises|date = 30 November 2019}} She was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard in 2013.{{Cite web|title=Michelle Lou|url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/michelle-lou|date=2013-09-25|website=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University|language=en|access-date=2020-05-13}} She was a Fulbright Fellow in Austria and was a visiting assistant professor of music at UC Santa Cruz.{{Cite web|title=Michelle Lou|url=https://www.newmusicusa.org/profile/michellelou/|website=New Music USA|language=en|access-date=2020-05-13}} Lou is currently an assistant professor of Composition and Computer Music at UC San Diego. {{Cite web |title=Michelle Lou |url=https://music-cms.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/regular_faculty/michelle-lou/index.html |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=music-cms.ucsd.edu}}