Biography
Brayden Meng (孟晨轩) is a composer, violinist, and multimedia artist passionate about transforming the experience of music both on its own and in collaboration with other arts disciplines. Meng was the youngest artist in residence at both the Aranya Theater Festival and the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, where he received the Wagner Fellowship for Music and Performance Art.
His compositions have won the SFCM Highsmith Competition (the youngest in the history of the program as of 2026), the 2024 Berkeley Piano Club Emerging Artist Grant, a performance by Invoke Quartet, and the 2025 Tribeca Emerging Composer Award. His pieces have also been premiered at the Yellow Barn Music Festival, the Interlochen Arts Academy, and the Palladium Center for the Arts. His work has been featured on award-winning films such as Sun, Moon, and Four Peaks.
He is the founder of MBODY, a musician-first performance-wear studio, and ArtIs . , an interdisciplinary arts collective based in San Francisco. He is currently pursuing a BM in Composition at SFCM under Grammy-winning composer Mason Bates.
