Selina Liu is an interdisciplinary composer and music director with professional experience in the United States, Canada, and France.

Selina’s work is defined by a tasteful eclecticism, drawing from late 19th – early 20th century French traditions, contemporary large ensemble jazz, East Asian popular music, and musical theatre. In 2025, Selina’s compositions have traversed chamber orchestra works, big band charts, classical guitar duets, art songs, and an opera currently in development at the Puccini International Opera Composition Course in Lucca, Italy. She is trained in classical, jazz, and musical theatre orchestration. A devoted creator of both music and literature, she aspires to be the composer, librettist, and orchestrator of her operas and musicals. 

Selina practices music direction with a multidisciplinary and multigenre philosophy. In Fall 2024, she served as music assistant for the historic Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris, contributing to five mainstage concerts, managing music library operations, writing arrangements for the orchestra’s education programs, and performing as rehearsal accompanist. Previous credits include music direction for Matilda Jr. and the Broadway 2000s musical theatre intensive at Citadel Theatre (Lake Forest, IL) in Summer 2023. In Summer 2025, she will join Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (Winchester, VA) as rehearsal and pit keyboardist, and in February 2026, she will serve as music director and conductor for the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center’s production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

Selina is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Theatre with a minor in Music Education at Northwestern University, where she also works as a voice lesson and audition accompanist. She teaches in secondary schools across Illinois’s North Shore, serves as conductor, arranger, and accompanist for Community Singers, Northwestern’s audition-free philanthropy choir, and plays keyboard in her band Heirloom. Beyond her technical experience, Selina is committed to amplifying underrepresented voices in the music industry through her involvement in Maestra, MUSE, and the Women In Jazz Organization, a philosophy she brings to her creative practice around the world.