Oswald Huỳnh, laureate of the 2025/26 Frederic A Juilliard | Walter Damrosch Rome Prize in Musical Composition, is a Vietnamese American composer whose music navigates Vietnamese aesthetics and tradition, language and translation, and the relationship between heritage and identity. His work is characterized by intricate contrasts of timbre and interweaving textures that are rooted in narrative, culture, and memory. Huỳnh has collaborated with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, Akropolis Reed Quintet, Tacet(i) Ensemble, Music From Copland House, and more. He has received honors from Luigi Nono International Composition Prize, New England, Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, and Musiqa. www.oswaldhuynh.com