Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti

Lanzilotti grew up in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. She began her violin studies with Hiroko Primrose,[6] renowned pedagogue and protégé of Shinichi Suzuki. In addition to western classical music, Lanzilotti studied Hawaiian language, culture, and dance at Hālau Hula O Maiki. Lanzilotti attended Punahou School[7] and Beijing Normal University Middle School No. 2 (School Year Abroad), and then continued her education at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music,[8] Yale School of Music,[9] and Manhattan School of Music. She was a fellowship violist in both the New World Symphony[10] and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

Lanzilotti is known as a performer for her collaborations with living composers such as Dai Fujikura,[11] Ted Hearne,[12] Andrew Norman,[13] Caroline Shaw,[14] Anna Thorvaldsdottir,[15] Jagoda Szmytka, Scott Wollschleger,[16] and Nina C. Young.[17] Lanzilotti created Shaken Not Stuttered as an extension of these collaborations. In addition to her work as a soloist, she has performed as a guest with Alarm Will Sound, Ensemble Éschappé, Ensemble Interface, Ensemble Signal, International Contemporary Ensemble, and with bands such as DeVotchKa, and She & Him.[18] Lanzilotti performed in the Björk Vulnicura Live tour in New York City, and appears on the album of the same name.

As an Andrew Norman scholar, Lanzilotti has written for Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, London Symphony Orchestra,[19] and has spoken at conferences internationally[20] on Norman's use of architecture and visual art as musical inspiration. Her doctoral dissertation is also on the topic of music and architecture in Norman's string trio, The Companion Guide to Rome.[21]

Lanzilotti is also co-founder and artistic consultant for Kalikolehua – El Sistema Hawaiʻi.[22] She was previously on the faculty at New York University, University of Northern Colorado, Casalmaggiore International Music Festival,[23] Point CounterPoint[24] and Wintergreen Performing Arts.[25]

In her role as Curator of Music at EMPAC, she has invited artists such as Heartbeat Opera,[26] Sarah Hennies,[27] Ken Ueno,[28] and commissioned Maria Chavez,[29] Lesley Flanigan,[30] Bora Yoon,[31] and Pamela Z.[32] At EMPAC, she is one of the center's three curators, alongside Vic Brooks, senior curator of time-based visual art, and Ashley Ferro-Murray, curator of theater and dance.[33]

Lanzilotti's compositions are characterized by the frequent use of field recordings and extended techniques for strings. Lanzilotti creates soundscapes that invite the audience to engage with sound and listen carefully to the subtleties of resonance. She was the winner of the first Periapsis Emerging Artist Residency,[34] and has been commissioned by The Noguchi Museum several times to write musical works.[35] Lanzilotti was a guest composer at Thailand International Composers Festival in 2018. [Switch~ Ensemble] received a MAP Fund grant[36] for the development and performance of her new work hānau ka ua.

Her album in manus tuas (New Focus Recordings, 2019), was featured in Bandcamp's The Best Contemporary Classical Albums of 2019[37] and The Boston Globe Top 10 Classical Albums of 2019.[38] Other albums including Lanzilotti's music are her debut EP Wanderweg and experimental LP The Akari Sessions.

• Jacob Cooper: Terrain[39][40] (New Amsterdam Records, 2020)
• Ted Hearne: hazy heart pump[41] (New Focus Recordings, 2019)
• David Lang: Anatomy Theater (Cantaloupe Music,[42] 2019)
• Lanzilotti: in manus tuas (New Focus Recordings, 2019)[14][43][44][45]
• Scott Wollschleger: Soft Aberration[46][16] (New Focus Recordings, 2017)
• Dai Fujikura: Chance Monsoon (Sony Japan[47] & Minabel, 2017)
• The Yes &: Thrush (2017)[48] music by Lanzilotti and Gahlord Dewald
• Lanzilotti: Wanderweg EP (2017) Works for viola(s) and electronics[49]
• Björk: Vulnicura Live[12] (One Little Indian Records, 2015).
• Ted Hearne: The Source[50][12] (New Amsterdam Records, 2015)
• Joan Osborne: Love and Hate[51] (Womanly Hips, 2014)
• Sean Hickey: Pied A Terre (Delos Productions, Inc., 2014)[52]
• Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin: Leoš Janácek – Mša Glagolskaja (Missa Solemnis) & Taras Bulba (Pentatone, 2013)[53]
• Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin: Richard Wagner – Parsifal (Pentatone, 2012)[54]
• Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin: Richard Wagner – Der fliegende Holländer (Pentatone, 2011)[55]

• with eyes the color of time for string orchestra (2020), commissioned by the String Orchestra of Brooklyn[56]
• find (2019) for viola and electronics, commissioned by Kieran Welch
• beyond the accident of time for percussion and voices (2019), commissioned by The Noguchi Museum, premiered June 13, 2019[57]
• the space in which to see for French horn, violin, viola, and cello (2019), commissioned by Johanna Lundy for the Borderlands Ensemble[58]
• of moments for baritone and baroque violin (2018) commissioned by Jesse Blumberg and Johanna Novom
• to you (the architects are most courageous) for two violins, viola, cello, and piano (2018)[59]
• Postcards II: Akari for viola, voice, harp, and fixed media (2018) Commissioned by The Noguchi Museum, premiered April 6, 2018[60]
• gray for viola and percussion (2017)[34][61]
• birth, death, for obsidian sound sculptures, strings, and voice (2017).[62] Commissioned by The Noguchi Museum
• Casalmaggiore for viola(s) and electronics (2016)
• leap year for viola(s) and electronics (2016)
• with their I you your fuse for double bass (2016)

Written:

• "Alone at Noguchi" Program notes for koʻu inoa and Star Compass (The Noguchi Museum, 2020)[63]
• "Music is Everywhere Steeped in Time," The 20/19 Project Monograph (Studio Will Dutta, 2019)[64]
• "A Trip to the Moon" (London Symphony Orchestra, 2017)[19]
• "Anna Thorvaldsdottir: A Part of Nature" (Music & Literature, 2017)[15]
• "Architektur der Gesellschaft: Der US-Amerikanische Komponist Andrew Norman" (Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 2017)[13]
• "'Cut to a Different World': Andrew Norman" (Music & Literature, 2016)[65]
• "Andrew Norman's The Companion Guide to Rome: Influence of Architecture and Visual Art on Composition" (DMA Diss, Manhattan School of Music, 2016)[21]

Editions of musical scores:

• Sonnets by Andrew Norman, edited by Lanzilotti – viola & piano[66]
• "Josephine (the Singer)" by Martin Bresnick, edited by Lanzilotti – solo viola[67]

• Official website
• Shaken Not Stuttered
• Kalikolehua, El Sistema Hawaiʻi