Lera Auerbach is a Soviet-born Austrian-American classical composer, conductor and concert pianist.
11 Facts About Lera Auerbach
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Lera Auerbach's mother was a piano teacher, many of whose ancestors had been musicians.
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Lera Auerbach received permission to visit the United States on a concert tour in 1991; although she spoke no English, she decided to stay in the country to pursue her musical career.
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Lera Auerbach graduated from New York's Juilliard School in piano and composition.
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Lera Auerbach studied comparative literature at Columbia University and earned a piano diploma at the Hochschule fur Musik Hannover.
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Lera Auerbach made her Carnegie Hall debut in May 2002, performing her own Suite for Violin, Piano and Orchestra with violinist Gidon Kremer conducting the Kremerata Baltica.
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Lera Auerbach has appeared as solo pianist at such venues as the Great Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Tokyo Opera City, Lincoln Center, Herkulessaal, Oslo konserthus, Chicago's Theodore Thomas Orchestra Hall and the Kennedy Center.
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Lera Auerbach's compositions have been commissioned and performed by a wide array of artists, orchestras, choirs and ballet companies including Gidon Kremer, the Kremerata Baltica, David Finckel, Wu Han, Vadim Gluzman, the Tokyo, Kuss, Parker and Petersen String Quartets, the SWR and NDR symphony orchestras, Berg Orchestra, Netherlands Chamber Choir, RIAS Kammerchor, and the Royal Danish Ballet.
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Lera Auerbach's music has been commissioned by and performed at Caramoor International Music Festival, Lucerne Festival, Lockenhaus Festival, Bremen Musikfest and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.
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In 2005 Lera Auerbach received the Hindemith Prize from the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.
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Lera Auerbach is the youngest composer to be represented by music publisher Internationale Musikverlage Hans Sikorski of Hamburg, Germany.