Derrick Wang is a creator, thinker and advisor unlocking value in unlikely places. As an ASCAP and BMI award-winning composer, lyricist, and librettist, his works have been performed by artists and groups including the American Modern Ensemble, Castleton Festival, Glimmerglass Festival, Orchestra Victoria, Opera Carolina, Opera Delaware, Opera Grand Rapids, Opera Naples, Opera North, Washington National Opera, and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, in venues from New York to Australia, and his orchestrations have been performed at Carnegie Hall and Juilliard. As an interdisciplinary thinker, his writing has been published in academic journals, profiled in legal periodicals, cited on network television (including “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”), and covered in U.S. news outlets (ranging from The Wall Street Journal to MSNBC) and international media (from The Economist to the Süddeutsche Zeitung and beyond). As founding advisor of Arsāpio, a creative consultancy and newsletter for polymathic growth, he demonstrates how artistic knowledge can unlock leadership potential in organizations of all kinds. As a speaker, pianist and creator of the motto “We are different, we are one,” he has addressed judges, legislators and legal scholars across the American political spectrum and the United States. He can be heard narrating and performing excerpts from his internationally performed and acclaimed opera Scalia/Ginsburg as an audiobook chapter in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s My Own Words. A graduate of Harvard University (AB magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), the Yale School of Music (MM), and the University of Maryland Carey School of Law (JD), he teaches music and law in the Business of Music program at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University. For more information, visit www.derrickwang.com.