Haotian Yu (born 1998 in Shanghai; lives and works in Chicago) is a Canadian composer. His music constructs formal and audiovisual systems from speculative analyses of Chinese musical traditions, historical media, and social/ritual practices.
From 2020 to 2026 he lived in Germany. He was the 2025-2026 season composer in residence for the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) in Frankfurt am Main and held a 2022-2023 Berlin Fellowship artist residency at the Akademie der Künste Berlin. A graduate of the HfMDK Frankfurt (Orm Finnendahl and Michael Reudenbach) and the Eastman School of Music (Oliver Schneller, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, and others), he is currently a Neubauer Family Foundation Distinguished Doctoral Fellow in Composition and Sound Practices at the University of Chicago.
Also active in new music administration and curation, he is an artistic director for the Beijing-based AIR contemporary music collective. His research has been broadcast on SWR and published in Perspectives of New Music.
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