Email: elodielauten@rcn.com
Web site: www.elodielauten.net
Composer/keyboardist/producer Elodie Lauten creates operas, theater pieces, orchestral, chamber and instrumental music. She is widely recognized in North America and Europe as a pioneer of post-minimalism and a force on the new music scene with 19 CDs on more than 10 labels. Lauten has received awards from the NEA, ASCAP, MTC, AMC, and commissions from Lincoln Center, the Soho Baroque Opera, Harpsichord Unlimited and The Lark Ascending, to name a few. She owns a recording label and publishing, Studio 21, and produces CDs for other artists on a regular basis.
Lauten’s Symphony 2001, was premiered in February 2003 by the SEM Orchestra in New York. In 2004, Waking in New York, Portrait of Allen Ginsberg was presented by the New York City Opera (2004 VOX and Friends), after being released on 4Tay, following three well-received productions. OrfReo, a new opera for Baroque ensemble was premiered at Merkin Hall by the Queen’s Chamber Band, featuring Marshall Coid, countertenor. The Queen’s Chamber Band 2004 Capstone release includes Lauten’s The Architect. In September 2004 she will be composer-in-residence at Hope College, MI.
In 1999, Lauten’s Deus ex Machina Cycle for voices and Baroque ensemble (4Tay) received strong critical acclaim in the US and Europe. Lauten’s Variations On The Orange Cycle (Lovely Music, 1998) was included in Chamber Music America’s list of 100 best works of the 20th century.
Critics have hailed Lauten's music in the U.S. and abroad as “an extraordinary revelation…a fixture of future musical lexicons” (England), “wonderfully exciting music” (Netherlands), "food for the soul" (Canada), “elegiac melodies” (The New York Times), “grand work that we are likely to return to again and again” (21st Century Music), “mesmerizing” (Option Magazine), “powerful, spontaneous and enlightening” (Santa Fe Sun). She has been called “a composer of enchanting music… a seminal figure…a major talent” (The Village Voice, “a musical magus in the Renaissance tradition” (Chicago Reader), “a force on the new music scene” (Fanfare).
Born in Paris, France, she was classically trained as a pianist since age 7. She received a Master's in composition from New York University where she studied Western composition with Dinu Ghezzo and Indian classical music with Ahkmal Parwez. From her father, jazz composer Errol Parker, she acquired a deep understanding of improvisation.