LJ White

LJ White is a composer and singer inspired by the physical voice and its implications, popular culture, gender and queerness, and ideals of collaborative community. He has worked with world-renowned performers including Alarm Will Sound, the JACK Quartet, Ensemble Signal, Third Coast Percussion, the Spektral Quartet, Steven Schick, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Transient Canvas, Post:ballet, the Quince Ensemble, the rapper Mvstermind, Sleeping Giant, and the Chicago, San Francisco, and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras, as well as members of International Contemporary Ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, Talea Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, and the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Recent projects include a carol called love, a choral work on the Grammy-nominated album Carols After A Plague released by The Crossing in December 2022, and Songs from The Best Place for This, an EP created with his voice before and after his gender transition, supported by a Puffin Foundation grant and residencies from MacDowell and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.

LJ is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Amherst College and a 2023-25 American Opera Projects Composers & the Voice fellow.