Anne Le Baron - Biography

Biography

Anne LeBaron holds a B.A. in music from the University of Alabama (1974), an M.A. in music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1978), and a D.M.A. from Columbia University (1989). She studied with Mauricio Kagel and György Ligeti as a Fulbright Scholar in 1980–81 (Edwards 2001) and also studied Korean traditional music at the The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts in Seoul (1983).

LeBaron began teaching at the California Institute of the Arts in 2001 after having taught (from 1997) at the University of Pittsburgh, and serving as composer-in-residence in Washington, DC, sponsored by Meet the Composer, from 1993 until 1996 (Edwards 2001). She composes for the Anne LeBaron Quintet, an ensemble comprising harp, trumpet, tuba, electric guitar, and percussion.

Her 1991 recording Phantom orchestra featured the Anne LeBaron Quintet (Frank London, trumpet; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Davey Williams, electric guitar; Gregg Bendian, drums, vibraphone, percussion; and Anne LeBaron, harp with electronics).

She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992.

Writing about LeBaron's 1989 Telluris Theoria Sacra (for flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, percussion, and piano), musicologist Susan McClary notes that the work "...points to LeBaron's more pervasive interest in music's ability to mold temporality, immersing the listener in a sound world in which time bends, stands still, dances, or conforms to the mechanical measure of the clock" (Lochhead 2007).