Hannah Lash composer
faculty artist series February 9, 2016 • Morse Recital Hall
Robert Blocker, Dean
Faculty Artist Series
Hannah Lash, composer Tuesday, February 9, 2016 • 7:30 pm • Morse Recital Hall
Hannah Lash b. 1981
Four Songs (2016) World premiere I. II. IV. Molly Netter, soprano • Hannah Lash, harp Samuel Suggs, double bass • Jeff Stern, percussion Sonata for Violin and Piano (2016) World premiere Jacob Ashworth, violin • Lee Dionne, piano intermission Hero and Leander (2016) World premiere I. Prelude II. Courting Dance III. Flocking IV. First Storm V. Hero and Leander VI. Interlude VII. The Storm; Leander Does Not Return VIII. Hero Finds Leander’s Body IX. Postlude the city of tomorrow Elise Blatchford, flute • Stuart Breczinski, oboe Rane Moore, clarinet • Nanci Belmont, bassoon Leander Star, horn
About the Composer
Hannah Lash Prize-winning composer Hannah Lash has emerged as a leading voice of her generation. In addition to numerous academic awards, she has received the ASCAP-Morton Gould Young Composer Award, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a fellowship from Yaddo Artist Colony, the Naumburg Prize, the Bernard Rogers Prize, and the Bernard and Rose Sernoffsky Prize. She has received commissions from the Fromm Foundation, the Naumburg Foundation, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, the Orpheus Duo, the Howard Hanson Foundation, Case Western Reserve’s University Circle Wind Ensemble, MAYA, Great Noise Ensemble, and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. Her orchestral music has been singled out by the American Composers Orchestra, which selected Furthermore for the 2010 Underwood New Music Readings, and by the Minnesota Orchestra, which selected her work God Music Bug Music for performance in January 2012 as part of the Minnesota Composers Institute. Her chamber opera Blood Rose was presented by New York City Opera’s VOX in the spring of 2011. Lash’s music has also been performed at Carnegie Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, the Chelsea Art Museum, Harvard University, Tanglewood Music Center, the Times Center, and the Chicago Art Institute. Hannah Lash earned a bachelor’s degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music, her Ph.D. from Harvard University, a performance degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music. Her primary teachers include Martin Bresnick, Bernard Rands, Julian Anderson, and Robert Morris. Lash joined the Yale School of Music faculty in 2013. Her music is published by Schott.
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