- Vanessa Lann
Vanessa Lann (Born in
Brooklyn ,USA in 1968) has been a composer and pianist since the age of five. She studied at
*the "Tanglewood Institute"
*withRuth Schonthal at the "Westchester Conservatory of Music"
*at 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 Theatre.Upon graduation in 1990, she was awarded the John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship, which took her to The Netherlands, where she completed her Post Graduate Diploma in 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 six compact discs and has been performed at major festivals, including "Warsaw Autumn" (Poland), "Gaudeamus Music Week" (The Netherlands), "ULTIMA" (Norway), the "Kiev Music Fest" (Ukraine) and "Summergarden" (NY, USA).
In recent years she has written on commission for such groups as The Netherlands' "Radio Chamber Orchestra", "Orkest De Volharding", "Cappella Amsterdam", "Maarten Altena Ensemble", "ELECTRA" and "Nieuw Ensemble", as well as for such performers as "Tomoko Mukaiyama", "Guy Livingston", "Jannie Pranger", "Ivo Janssen", "Harry Sparnaay", "Annelie de Man" and "Eleonore Pameijer".
She is now composing a piece for the "Residentie Orchestra of The Hague" for their 2006/2007/2008 season. Lann's music is published by DONEMUS in Amsterdam.
External links
* [http://www.lann.dds.nl Official website]
* [http://www.kalvos.org/lannvan.html Vanessa Lann, Nonpop New Music Composer]
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