This week we welcome Lera Auerbach as our guest blogger. Lera is among the most widely performed composers of her
generation. She has composed major works for orchestra,
ballet, chamber ensemble, chorus, and opera, and is a concert
pianist and award-winning poet. Her
new ballet, “The Little Mermaid,” will receive its American premiere in 2010 by the San
Francisco Ballet. Lera is writing an opera based on her stage play “Gogol” for Vienna’s Theater an der Wien for
premiere in 2011, and will be composer-in-residence with the Dresden
Staatskapelle Orchestra the same year.
In
May 2009, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. presented a composer
portrait of Auerbach, and during the summer she was honored with
composer portraits and premieres at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland
and the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. She was a featured poet
at the 2009 West Cork Literary Festival in Ireland. Lera was named Poet of the Year by
the International Pushkin Society in 1997 at the age of 23, and in 2007
was named a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum. Find out more about Lera Auerbach
here.
Welcome, Lera.
-- sdh
