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

​Selina’s works have been performed by student and professional musicians across North America, Europe, and Asia. Her chamber opera Princessée, a commentary on the gendered implications of music leadership and the sanctification of the hyperfeminine, was recently premiered at the Puccini Chamber Opera Festival in Lucca, Italy. Her work spans symphonic poems, big band compositions, lyrical scenes, art songs, and arias. As an arranger and orchestrator, she has extensive experience in vocal arrangement, cross-genre adaptation, and theatrical orchestration. Her creative process is rooted in research and history, with interests in macaronic text, cross-cultural recomposition, psychoanalysis, mysticism, semiotics, and feminine figures in opera.

She is currently working on the score and libretto of a choreographic opera, inspired by the life of sculptor Camille Claudel.

As a conductor, Selina is active in orchestral, operatic, and music theatre settings. She served as conducting and music library assistant with the historic Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris, contributing to five mainstage concerts at venues including the Philharmonie de Paris, as well as educational initiatives throughout France. She will join the Vienna Opera Academy as Assistant Conductor in 2026 in the productions of Carmen and Rigoletto.

Beyond the podium, Selina works as a collaborative pianist and vocal coach, and performs regularly as a pit musician for theatrical productions. Her long-term goal 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.

Selina holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Theatre from Northwestern University and will pursue a Master of Music degree in Composition at the Mannes School of Music in New York City.