Vanessa Lann

Who is Vanessa Lann?

Vanessa Lann has been a composer and pianist since the age of five. She studied at the Tanglewood Institute with Ruth Schonthal. She also attended the Westchester Conservatory of Musicat Harvard University, where her main teachers were Earl Kim, Peter Lieberson, and Leon Kirchner. There she won numerous prizes, organized new-music concerts, produced radio feature programs, and was music director for theatrical productions at the American Repertory Theater.

Upon graduation in 1990, she was awarded the John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship, which took her to The Netherlands, where she completed her Masters Degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Theo Loevendie as her main teacher. She continues to live in Europe, working as a composer and university professor.