Elodie Lauten is a composer, performer and media artist. As a leading exponent of post-minimalism, she was listed among the most influential composers of the last three decades (Sequenza 21). Her piano, electronic, orchestral compositions and five operas have had 30 releases on different major and independent labels in the US and Europe. Her music had venues at Lincoln Center Festival, the New York City Opera, The Whitney Museum, throughout America with performances and university residencies, and in Canada and Europe, notably at the Paris Museum of Modern Art. About her multimedia work shown as part of the Women Forward movement, James Baldwin Cohen said: “Her highly sophisticated use of today’s advanced technology has opened a new dimension in the art world.” She received a Bachelor’s in Economics from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and a Master’s in Composition from New York University and has been on faculty at NYU and currently at CUNY's New York City College of Technology.

In May 2011 her opera The Death of Don Juan had its New York premiere at Theater for the New City, back after The Two-Cents Opera also at TNC in 2009.

The Death of Don Juan Video Screening - Free

Saturday January 14, 2012 at 2pm
Hamilton Fish Public LIbrary 415 Houston (Ave D)