Composer/keyboardist/producer Elodie Lauten creates operas, music for dance and theatre, orchestral, chamber and instrumental music. Not a household name, she is however widely recognized by historians as a leading figure of post-minimalism and a force on the new music scene, with 20 releases on a number of labels.
Her opera Waking in New York, Portrait of Allen Ginsberg was presented by the New York City Opera (2004 VOX and Friends) in May 2004, after being released on 4Tay, following three well-received productions. OrfReo, a new opera for Baroque ensemble was premiered at Merkin Hall by the Queen's Chamber Band, whose New Music Alive CD (released on Capstone in 2004) includes Lauten's The Architect. The Orfreo CD was released in December 2004 on Studio 21. In September 2004 Lauten was composer-in-residence at Hope College, MI. Lauten's Symphony 2001, was premiered in February 2003 by the SEM Orchestra in New York. In 1999, Lauten's Deus ex Machina Cycle for voices and Baroque ensemble (4Tay) received strong critical acclaim in the US and Europe. Lauten's Variations On The Orange Cycle (Lovely Music, 1998) was included in Chamber Music America's list of 100 best works of the 20th century.
Born in Paris, France, she was classically trained as a pianist since age 7. She received a Master's in composition from New York University where she studied Western composition with Dinu Ghezzo and Indian classical music with Ahkmal Parwez. Daughter of jazz pianist/drummer Errol Parker, she is also a fluent improviser. She became an American citizen in 1984 and has lived in New York since the early seventies
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Sunday, May 13, 2007
The Fabulous Baker Girls
Last week, Downtown Music Productions presented the work of the Boulanger sisters on the same program – Lili and Nadia Boulanger, whose music is largely forgotten, even if Nadia taught composition to an entire generation of Americans including Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Elliot Carter and Marc Blitzstein – and Philip Glass, I believe. Mimi Stern-Wolfe, artistic director of DMP, took lessons with Nadia Boulanger as well. Lili Boulanger, who died at 24, won the Rome Prize in composition for her Faust and Helene – not a small feat for a woman before World War I - and she received triumphant and unanimous acclaim for her music. I was pleased to see that someone is remembering the fabulous “Baker” sisters… The event is part of DMP's East Village Concert Series on Sunday afternoons at St Mark's Church. More information at: www.downtownmusicproductions.org.
posted by Elodie Lauten
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