Who Is Lucia Hwong?
Lucia Hwong is a composer and instrumentalist who is also known as the daughter of Chinese actress Lisa Lu. Lucia’s mother Lisa Lu has been able to win the Golden Horse Awards three times, in the 1970s. She is the only person who is a member of both the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Lucia Hwong: Bio Summary
| Name | Lucia Hwong |
| Age | N/A |
| Birthplace | Hawaii |
| Famous as | Composer, daughter of Lisa Lu |
| Nationality | American |
| Parents | Shelling Hwong and Lisa Lu |
| Spouse | Peter Gordon |
| Children | Sabrina Gordon and Sofia Gordon |
| Occupation | Composer and instrumentalist |
Lucia Hwong was born in Hawaii and nurtured in Los Angeles, California but her date of birth and age is not publicly available. She is one of the three children of Shelling Hwong (1922-1996) and Lisa Lu. Her mother Lisa Lu was born in Beijing, China. Lisa Lu did several odd jobs before finally becoming an actress.
Lisa Lu was at a point in time an accountant, lab technician, and interpreter. Lucia Hwong’s grandmother was a grande dame of Chinese opera. Lucia studied ethnomusicology, theater, and dance at UCLA and Columbia University from 1978 to 1982. She graduated with a B.A. degree cum laude in ethnomusicology.
Lucia Hwong’s Career
Lucia Hwong is a composer and instrumentalist. She is known for creating music for theater, film, television, dance, and the concert stage. She made her first public performance in concert, playing the pipa, an ancient Chinese lute, at the age of six. She is known for The Last Emperor (1987), Year of the Dragon (1985), and Nothing Lasts Forever (1984).
Lucia Hwong’s music for theater includes the scores for M. Butterfly and Golden Child and also presentations of Sound and Beauty and The Dance and the Railroad and the Obie Award-winner FOB. She composed the music for Iago and Venus Voodoo at Lincoln Center.
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Lucia Hwong scored the Mark Taper and McCarter Theatre premieres of Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 and created a 12-tone fugue for Joyce Carol Oates’ The Perfectionist. She also scored Ali MacGraw’s Yoga Mindbody and created music for the Guggenheim Museum’s Soho video wall.
Lucia Hwong’s music for television and film include Hiroshima (NBC), Vietnam War Story (HBO), Forbidden Nights (Tiananmen Square massacre) (ABC), Paper Angels (Angel Island) (PBS), Jennifer’s in Jail (girl gangs) (Lifetime), Lotus (women’s emancipation in China) (AFI), Who Killed Vincent Chin? (racial murder) (1998 Oscar nomination: Best Documentary) and Silverlake Life: the View from Here (AIDS), honored with Sundance Film Festival and Peabody awards.
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Lucia Hwong has also chaired philanthropic events for organizations including the Women’s Project, American Theatre Wing, Asia Society, and Parrish Art Museum, and has been on committees such as Southampton Hospital. Her albums, House of Sleeping Beauties and Secret Luminescence were released on the Private Music label.
Lucia Hwong’s Personal Life
Lucia Hwong has kept her personal life off publicity. She was married to investment banker Peter Gordon (1942-2020). They are the parents of two daughters Sabrina Gordon and Sofia Gordon. There isn’t much information about Lucia’s past relationships, affairs, and marriages. She has stayed out of controversy and gossip.
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