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

Her 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, her compositions ranged from chamber orchestra works and big band charts to classical guitar duets, art songs, and an opera currently in development at the Puccini Chamber Opera Festival 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 multistylistic philosophy. In Fall 2024, she served as assistant conductor and assistant music librarian for the historic Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris, contributing to five mainstage concerts, 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 intensive at Citadel Theatre (Lake Forest, IL) in Summer 2023, and serving as rehearsal and pit pianist at Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (Winchester, VA) in Summer 2025. In February 2026, she will serve as music director and conductor for the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center’s (Evanston, IL) 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 pit musician, voice lesson and audition accompanist. She teaches in secondary schools across Illinois’s North Shore, and serves as a mentor and bridge builder for younger university students in all areas of her expertise. She conducts, arranges, and accompanies for Community Singers, the university’s audition-free philanthropy choir, and performs as a keyboardist in the 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 carries into her creative practice around the world.