Polish of Vietnamese descent composer and pianist, Ania Vu (née Vũ Đặng Minh Anh) is pursuing a Ph.D. as a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her music explores the interplay between words' sound properties and meanings, musical energy related to form, and varied notions of time. In 2017, she received her BM in composition and theory from the Eastman School of Music.

Winner of the Boston New Music Initiative's 9th Annual Commissioning Competition (2021) and prize recipient of the Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra’s Call for Scores (2020), Ania has had the privilege of working with the Daedalus and Mivos string quartets, TAK Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Iridium Saxophone Quartet, and sopranos Rose Hegele and Paulina Swierczek. Her music has been featured at several festivals, including the Tanglewood Music Center, Tage Neuer Musik in Regensburg (Germany), International New Music Festival at USF, Red Note New Music Festival (USA), Newburyport Chamber Music Festival (USA), Valencia International Performance Academy (Spain), SoundSCAPE (Italy), and Women in Music (USA). 

Ania is also an active pianist, performing solo and chamber music, both in standard and contemporary repertoire. She performs her own music, and has collaborated with a number of her colleagues and premiered their works. A recipient of several awards in national and international competitions in Europe, she has performed in the US, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Vietnam, and Poland, and has been heard at the Royal Castle in Warsaw and three times at the Hanoi Opera House in Vietnam.