Vanessa Lann
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Vanessa Lann has been a composer and pianist since the age of five. She studied at the Tanglewood Institute
with Ruth Schonthal
. She also attended the Westchester Conservatory of Musicat Harvard University, where her main teachers were Earl Kim
, Peter Lieberson
, and Leon Kirchner
. There she won numerous prizes, organized new-music concerts, produced radio feature programs, and was music director for theatrical productions at the American Repertory Theater.
Upon graduation in 1990, she was awarded the John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship, which took her to The Netherlands, where she completed her Masters Degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague
with Theo Loevendie as her
main teacher. She continues to live in Europe, working as a composer and university professor.
Her music has received many awards: Inner Piece won a prestigious Amsterdam Arts Foundation Composition Prize (The Netherlands, 1995), the Boswil International Composition Competition (Switzerland, 1997), and the Collegium Novum Competition (USA, 1998).
Her music has been recorded on eight compact discs and has been performed at major festivals, including Warsaw Autumn (Poland), Gaudeamus Music Week (The Netherlands), ULTIMA (Norway), West Cork Music Festival (Ireland), Time of Music (Finland) and Summergarden (NY, USA).
In recent years she has written on commission for such groups as The Netherlands' Schoenberg Ensemble, Radio Chamber Orchestra, Residentie Orchestra, Orkest De Volharding, Cappella Amsterdam, Doelen String Quartet, Maarten Altena Ensemble, ELECTRA and Nieuw Ensemble, as well as for such performers as Tomoko Mukaiyama, Guy Livingston, Benjamin Schmid, Ivo Janssen, Isabel Ettenauer, Liza Ferschtman, Inon Barnatan, Cristina Zavalloni, Monica Germino and Eleonore Pameijer
.
She is presently working on a commissioned piece for the International Choir Biennale in Haarlem (The Netherlands) for Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Viktor Kopatchinsky (cimbalom), the Dutch Radio Choir and the Latvian Radio Choir for the 2011 festival.
Boston University Tanglewood Institute
The Boston University Tanglewood Institute is recognized internationally as the premiere summer training program for aspiring high school-age musicians and is the only program of its kind associated with one of the world’s great symphony orchestras...
with Ruth Schonthal
Ruth Schonthal
Ruth Schönthal was a pianist and contemporary composer.-Early years:...
. She also attended the Westchester Conservatory of Musicat Harvard University, where her main teachers were Earl Kim
Earl Kim
Earl Kim was a Korean-American composer.Kim was born in Dinuba, California, to immigrant Korean parents. He began piano studies at age ten and soon developed an interest in composition, studying in Los Angeles and Berkeley with, among others, Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch, and Roger Sessions...
, Peter Lieberson
Peter Lieberson
Peter Lieberson was an American composer. He was ballerina and choreographer Vera Zorina and Goddard Lieberson, president of Columbia Records....
, and Leon Kirchner
Leon Kirchner
Leon Kirchner was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 3.Kirchner was born in Brooklyn, New York...
. There she won numerous prizes, organized new-music concerts, produced radio feature programs, and was music director for theatrical productions at the American Repertory Theater.
Upon graduation in 1990, she was awarded the John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship, which took her to The Netherlands, where she completed her Masters Degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague
Royal Conservatory of The Hague
The Royal Conservatory of The Hague is a conservatorium of music, providing higher education in music and dance, it is located in The Hague, Netherlands.-The Conservatory:...
with Theo Loevendie as her
main teacher. She continues to live in Europe, working as a composer and university professor.
Her music has received many awards: Inner Piece won a prestigious Amsterdam Arts Foundation Composition Prize (The Netherlands, 1995), the Boswil International Composition Competition (Switzerland, 1997), and the Collegium Novum Competition (USA, 1998).
Her music has been recorded on eight compact discs and has been performed at major festivals, including Warsaw Autumn (Poland), Gaudeamus Music Week (The Netherlands), ULTIMA (Norway), West Cork Music Festival (Ireland), Time of Music (Finland) and Summergarden (NY, USA).
In recent years she has written on commission for such groups as The Netherlands' Schoenberg Ensemble, Radio Chamber Orchestra, Residentie Orchestra, Orkest De Volharding, Cappella Amsterdam, Doelen String Quartet, Maarten Altena Ensemble, ELECTRA and Nieuw Ensemble, as well as for such performers as Tomoko Mukaiyama, Guy Livingston, Benjamin Schmid, Ivo Janssen, Isabel Ettenauer, Liza Ferschtman, Inon Barnatan, Cristina Zavalloni, Monica Germino and Eleonore Pameijer
Eleonore Pameijer
Eleonore Pameijer is a Dutch musician who studied flute with Koos Verheul at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam where she received her solo diploma cum laude...
.
She is presently working on a commissioned piece for the International Choir Biennale in Haarlem (The Netherlands) for Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Viktor Kopatchinsky (cimbalom), the Dutch Radio Choir and the Latvian Radio Choir for the 2011 festival.