b'OPERAAbout Composer & Librettist Derrick WangDerrick Wang is a creator, thinker, and advisor unlocking value in unlikely places. As a creator, he is known in worldwide media as the composer and librettist of the opera Scalia/Ginsburg, which U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called a dream come true, and which ushered in the current era of Supreme Court-themed art. The Los Angeles Times wrote: Could we please make it a constitutional requirement that no one can be sworn into office in the White House or Congress without first having seen Scalia/Ginsburg? Hailed as a perfectjewel (Opera Today), a fiercely entertaining crash course on the U.S. Constitution and the people who uphold it (Broad Street Review), and the kind of opera that should be everywhere (OperaWire), Scalia/Ginsburg was premiered to international attention at noted conductor Lorin Maazels Castleton Festival and (in its revised version) at The Glimmerglass Festival, featured as its own chapter (the audio version of which Derrick Wang narrates) in Ruth Bader Ginsburgs book My Own Words, broadcast on national radio in the United States, featured on Live with Carnegie Hall, and performed across the United States and abroad, including its sold-out Australian premiere in 2021.As an ASCAP and BMI award-winning composer, lyricist, and librettist, his works have been performed by artists and groups including the American Modern Ensemble, Castleton Festival, Chautauqua Opera Company, Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Carolina, Opera Delaware, Opera Grand Rapids, Opera Las Vegas, OperaMemphis, Opera Naples, Opera North, Orchestra Victoria, Washington National Opera, and WinnipegSymphony Orchestra, in venues from New York to Australia, and his orchestrations have been performed at Juilliard and Carnegie Hall.As an interdisciplinary thinker, his writing has been published in academic journals, profiled in legal periodicals, cited on network television (including Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?), and covered in U.S. news outlets(ranging from The Wall Street Journal to MSNBC) and international media (from The Economist to theSddeutsche Zeitung and beyond). As founding advisor of Arspio, a creative consultancy for polymathic growth, he demonstrates how artistic knowledge can unlock leadership potential in organizations of all kinds. As a speaker, pianist, and creator of the motto We are different, we are one, he has addressed judges,legislators, and legal scholars across the American political spectrum and the United States. A graduate of Harvard University (AB magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), the Yale School of Music (MM),and the University of Maryland Carey School of Law (JD), he teaches music and law in the Business ofMusic program at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University. For more information, visit www.derrickwang.com.Derrick Wang photo by Matthew Friedprincetonsymphony.org/festival The Princeton Festival 17'