Yan Liang

Yan Liang — Composer

Yan Liang is a composer whose work explores ritual, mysticism, alchemical symbolism, and the thresholds where sound behaves as trace, omen, residue, or invocation.

Her ongoing cycle Nigredo draws on the blackening stage of medieval alchemy: a subtle, restrained process of dissolution, transformation, and transmutation. Liang is a Montreal-based composer at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, with an additional academic background in Religious Studies and Ritual Research.

Selected Works

• Nigredo V: Black Sun Escape (2026) — for string quartet.
• Nigredo IV: Noonday Demon (2026) — for clarinet, oboe, alto saxophone, bassoon, and bass clarinet.
• Nigredo VII: Till the Water Be Made Black (2026) — for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano.
• Nigredo VI: Chromatic Black (2026) — for violin, cello, and piano.
• Ritual Liminality (2025) — electroacoustic work.
• In Mirror, In Nigredo, In Ineffability Topos II (2025) — for violin, saxophone, and piano.
• In Mirror, In Nigredo, In Ineffability Topos (2025) — for violin, saxophone, and piano.
• Coiled Within (2025) — for cello, accordion, and percussion.

For concise orientation, this page offers a brief index of biography, selected works, and contact pathways.