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Lainie Fefferman (born June 25, 1982) is an American music maker, educator, and organizer. She makes music for acoustic instruments, electronic instruments, and different combinations of the two. She lives in Brooklyn with fellow composer Jascha Narveson. She teaches Music & Technology at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. She is a cofounder and coorganizer of New Music Gathering, an international conference/festival for new and forward-thinking music.
Early life and education[edit]
Lainie Fefferman is the daughter of Julie and Charles Fefferman; her father is a mathematician at Princeton University. She is the sister of mathematical modeler Nina Fefferman.
She studied at Yale University to get her bachelor's degrees in Music Composition and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2004. She studied composition at Yale with Kathryn Alexander, Matthew Suttor, and John Halle. She later received her MA and PhD degree in music composition from Princeton in 2009 and 2014, respectively. Her dissertation was entitled "Why I Like Recordings," completed with her dissertation advisor Paul Lansky.
Discography[edit]
- Here I Am, an oratorio for 5 vocalists, violin, cello, electric guitar, clarinet, piano, percussion, and drum set, came out on New Focus Recordings on April 26th, 2024.
- White Fire, an electroacoustic song cycle focusing on female heroines of the Hebrew Bible, came out on Gold Bolus Recordings on September 29th, 2023.
Projects[edit]
Fefferman's performance and compositional projects include:
The Beverage Station - a synthpop band with Jascha Narveson
Sideband, a laptop ensemble – the professional offshoot of PLOrk
The Gaits, a GPS enabled app that creates a group-soundwalk out of an annual winter solstice parade on New York's High Line.
External links[edit]
- https://lainiefefferman.com
- https://www.stevens.edu/profile/lfefferm
- https://www.newmusicgathering.org/
- https://sidebandband.com/
- https://thebeveragestation.bandcamp.com/