Anne LeBaron

Alice Anne LeBaron (born May 30, 1953 in Baton Rouge ) is an American harpist , composer and university lecturer who works in the area between avant-garde jazz , new music and free improvisation .

Live and act

Anne LeBaron received her BA in Music from the University of Alabama in 1974 and a Masters of Arts in Music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1978 ; In 1989 she received her PhD from Columbia University . In 1979 she played in a duo with Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith . In 1980/81 she studied under György Ligeti as a Fulbright scholar at the Cologne University of Music and in 1983 at The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts in Seoul .

In 1991 the album Phantom Orchestra was created with the Anne LeBaron Quintet, which consisted of Davey Williams, the trumpeter Frank London , the tuba player Marcus Rojas , the drummer Gregg Bendian and LeBaron, who recorded electronics as well as the harp. In 1992 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship . 1995 LeBaron worked on Muhal Richard Abrams ' album One Line, Two Views . She also worked with Georg Graewe ( Chamber Works , 1991/92), Erhart Hirt , John Lindberg , Myra Melford and Earl Howard (1999). In 2000, her album Sacred Theory of the Earth [ Telluris Theoria Sacra ] was released on CRI Emergency. The Newband recorded their composition Southern Ephemera (1993).

LeBaron has taught at the California Institute of the Arts since 2001 , previously at the University of Pittsburgh . She composed for her Anne LeBaron Quintet and in 2005 the opera Wet .

Discographic notes

• Anne LeBaron / Andrea Centazzo / Andrew Raffo Dewar : Encantamientos (2017)

literature

• Anne LeBaron Composer Portrait
• Anne LeBaron: "Reflections of Surrealism in Postmodern Musics". In: Postmodern Music / Postmodern Thought , Lochhead, Judy and Auner, Joseph (Ed.) 2002

Web links

• Anne LeBaron's website
• Anne LeBaron at Discogs (English)
• Wet at Recat