About Me - Chloe Biggs Composer

Chloe Biggs is a 20-year-old composer who experiments with modern sounds to try to imagine a future through music. Her exposure to pop songs on the radio and orchestral scores in film and games sparked an obsession with music when she was a child. She fell in love with the classical canon through her training as a violinist with Kristen Presley in grade school. Her first compositions drew inspiration from beloved symphonic composers like Mahler, Stravinsky, and Shostakovich whom she studied in the school orchestra and the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra Program. In high school, she studied composition with Hope Armstrong Erb who helped her expand her musical horizons and build the tools to pursue a career in music.

She is currently enrolled in her third year of undergraduate composition studies at Oberlin Conservatory with Soomin Kim. She had her first orchestra piece, Body (2025), read this November at OC by conductor Raphael Jiménez. She enjoys exploring live electronic processing, synthesized sounds, and improvisation such as in her composition, Bucket Music (2025), with Indigo Brandstein and Gwen R. Reberneck-McKee and her arrangement of Brandstein’s Why I Stopped Meditating and Started Screaming (2025) for chamber ensemble and fixed media.