Visiting Composer: Anne LeBaron

Anne LeBaron is Composer Emerita at California Institute of the Arts. Hailed by The New Yorker as an “unusually inventive composer,” an “innovative [harpist],” and overall “admired West Coast experimentalist,” Anne LeBaron's compositions resonate worldwide—performed from Kazakhstan to Italy to New York. Merging classic grandeur with avant-garde dynamism, her seven operas evoke tales of iconic figures like Pope Joan, Aldous Huxley, and Marie Laveau. Described by the LA Times as a “composer as transformer,” and “idiosyncratic visionary” whose music is at once “provocative,” “powerful,” and “always changing, and always captivating” LeBaron has and continues to masterfully explore myriad cultural and philosophical topics through music. She will discuss her work at our Theory-Composition Colloquium, Tuesday October 1 at 12:30 PM. All are welcome!