Selina Liu is a composer, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, librettist, collaborative pianist, and interdisciplinary music director. 

​Her chamber opera Princessée, an interrogation on the gendered implications of conducting and the sanctification of the hyperfeminine, is in development at the Puccini Chamber Opera Festival (Lucca, Italy). Her symphonic poem Fourth Elegy, named after Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, was recently workshopped with Starliner Orchestra (Beijing, China). Her Autobiography of Red, a jazz re-composition of orchestral repertoire, was workshopped with Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra. She develops new arias regularly with Cosmia Opera Collective. (Evanston, IL, USA) She is interested in cross-cultural combinations of materials, including the macaronic French-English Berceuse and Don’t Eat the Persimmons, which blends Korean gayageum and classical guitar, programmed at private recitals. She also has extensive experience with vocal arrangement, cross-genre arrangement, and theatrical orchestration. 

In 2024, Selina served as assistant conductor and assistant music librarian for the historic Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris. In February 2026, she will serve as music director and conductor for the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center’s (Evanston) production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. She currently studies orchestral conducting with Maestro Donald Schleicher and wind conducting with Maestro Shawn Vondran. 

Selina is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Theatre with a minor in Music Education at Northwestern University, pursuing a rigorous, self-initiated curriculum that includes classical and jazz orchestration, Renaissance counterpoint, and secondary choral pedagogy. She works as an audition and voice-lesson accompanist for the music theatre department and performs regularly as a pit musician for Wirtz Center productions. Her academic research spans three mentored projects, with current work centered on psychoanalysis, Symbolism, and feminine figures in opera.

​Beyond her technical experience, Selina is committed to amplifying underrepresented voices in the music industry through her involvement in Maestra, MUSE, Girls Who Conduct, and the Women in Jazz Organization. Her long-term mission is to build communities of musical multilingualism, ensembles, and educational spaces where musicians from disparate traditions can see their work not as marginal but as interconnected.