Anne LeBaron

Alice Anne LeBaron (* May 30, 1953 in Baton Rouge) is an American harpist, composer and university teacher, jazz, new music and free improvisation operates in the intermediate range of avant-garde.

Life

Anne LeBaron acquired in 1974 Bachelor in Music at the University of Alabama, and in 1978 the master of arts in music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; In 1989, she received his doctorate at Columbia University. In 1979, she played in a duo with Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith. She studied in 1980/81 with György Ligeti as a Fulbright Fellow at the Musikhochschule Köln and 1983 Korean traditional music at The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts in Seoul.

In 1991, the album Phantom Orchestra originated with the Anne LeBaron Quintet, which consisted of Davey Williams, trumpeter Frank London, the tuba player Marcus Rojas, drummer Gregg Bendian and LeBaron, which grossed next to the harp and Electronics. In 1992 she received a scholarship from the Guggenheim Fellowship. 1995 acted LeBaron to with Muhal Richard Abrams ' Album One Line, Two Views. They also worked with George Gräwe ( Chamber Works, 1991/ 92), Erhart Hirt, John Lindberg, Myra Melford and Earl Howard ( 1999). In 2000, her album Sacred Theory of the Earth [ Telluris Theoria Sacra ] appeared in CRI Emergency.

From 2001 unterrichichtete LeBaron at the California Institute of the Arts, previously she worked at the University of Pittsburgh. She composed for their Anne LeBaron Quintet and 2005, the opera Wet.