The music of Elodie Lauten has been presented by the Lincoln Center Festival, the New York City Opera, WNYC, The Kitchen, the Performing Garage, the Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama, the Soho Baroque Opera, Downtown Music Productions, the American Festival of Microtonal Music, Interpretations, the SEM Ensemble, The Whitney Museum, and at the Paris Museum of Modern Art. The current discography includes 26 titles to-date, released on Lovely Music, O.O. Discs, Point/Polygram, New Tone (Italy), 4-Tay, Tellus, Nonsequitur, Capstone, Frog Peak, Pitch and Studio 21. No stranger to visual and media arts, Lauten has had solo, collaborative and group gallery showings in New York and Boston including sound installations, drawings, as well as computer-based art and animation.
The musical oeuvre includes many electronic and electro-acoustic pieces, as well as chamber and orchestral music. Her landmarks are unique neo-operas evolving or deconstructing the classic form: The Death of Don Juan (1985), Existence (1991), The Deus Ex Machina Cycle (1997), Orfreo (2004) and Waking in New York, portrait of Allen Ginsberg (1999), which appeared on a list of the most influential works of the last three decades.
Lauten received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, and The Music Liberty Initiative. Lauten was on the composition faculty at New York University. She is a regular contributor to the classical music internet publication Sequenza21. She is a member of the boards of the American Festival of Microtonal Music and Lower East Side Performing Arts, and a writer/publisher member of ASCAP.
Photography:
Milton Fletcher
Web site design: Studio 21
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jamesarts@worldnet.att.net
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