About
Maggie is a multi-media artist specializing in music composition, performance, and visual art.
Off-the-charts amazing
~ The Free Press
Music
Maggie Lu is an award-winning Canadian composer and pianist whose music has reached over half a million people worldwide. Having begun piano lessons at age four, she earned her ARCT diploma in piano performance at 12 and became the youngest composer in Canadian history to be published in the Royal Conservatory of Music’s official curriculum at 18. She began her bachelor’s degree at 14 under the mentorship of JUNO Award-winning faculty before entering her master’s program at 16.
Her compositions have been commissioned and performed internationally, and described as “incredible” by internationally celebrated classical duo TwoSet Violin. Maggie works across diverse genres, creating original music ranging from concert works to film scores.
To contact her, visit maggielu.com/contact.
Creating art has been an integral part of Maggie’s life since she could hold a pencil. At 9 years old, she was featured by the international Get to Know Contest, and at 17 years old won the competition in the Visual Art category. She has been awarded the British Columbia Achievement Scholarship and District Authority Scholarship for outstanding accomplishment in the Arts, and was awarded at the 7th World Cup Live Painting awards at 16. Maggie utilizes a wide range of media, comprising acrylics, pencils, watercolours, and oils. Her paintings and drawings have been sold to clients across the globe, including the United States, Belgium, Australia, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom.
Currently available works can be purchased by inquiry through the Contact page, while prints of her art are sold at the Shop.
Writing and Photography
Having a passion for writing since a young age, Maggie’s work was first published by Polar Expressions at the age of 11. The same year, she was honoured to be a winner of the Get to Know international competition for her poetry. Most recently, her work was the First Place winner of the regional Young Adult Writing Contest and published in the Embers literary journal. In addition to creative literature, she produces non-fiction and academic writing, with her scholarly research in music history published in the Inquiries Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. She has also contributed to The Ubyssey, Canada’s largest student-run newspaper. Her interest in the arts extends to photography, where her photograph Crystalline – taken at age 14 – was selected for international exhibition at Somerset House, London, UK, and commended by the World Photography Organisation and the Sony Photography Awards.
