Lara Poe
Lara Poe is a Finnish-American composer who is currently based in London. She has collaborated with musicians such as the JACK quartet, Dal Niente, Sound Icon, Semiosis quartet, Jonathan Radford, Laura Farre Rosada, Aija Reke, and Timo Kinnunen, and her works have been performed in the US, as well as the UK, Finland, Latvia, Germany, and Taiwan. She has received recognition in several competitions. In 2017, Poe received the BMI Student Composer Award William Schuman Prize for the most outstanding score, and was the winner of the 2016 American Prize in Chamber Music composition, student division. Poe was also a participant in the 2017 Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and her piece Mirror Rim was performed at the 2018 Aldeburgh Festival. She is currently taking part in the 2018-2019 LSO Panufnik Scheme.
Poe is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music, where she received an Mmus with distinction. At the RCM she studied composition with Kenneth Hesketh as her principal composition professor, and she also studied electroacoustic music with Gilbert Nouno. Prior to her studies at the RCM, Poe studied with Martin Amlin, Richard Cornell, Joshua Fineberg, Paavo Korpijaakko, Rodney Lister, Alex Mincek, and Ketty Nez. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from Boston University, and studied at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School while in grade school. While pursuing her bachelor's degree, Poe received the both the Boston University's Wainwright prize and Department of Music Theory and Composition award in 2016, and was inducted into the music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda in April 2016.
Poe's current projects include Sonifying Noise Pollution, which is a collaboration with Royal College of Art graduate Jennifer Haugan. This project is an interactive, multimedia examination of noise pollution levels throughout the UK. Poe and Haugan presented Sonifying Noise Pollution at the 2017 IRCAM forums in April 2017, and are working to include more data points and more interactive features. Other projects include collaborations with saxophonist Jonathan Radford, the Megalopolis Saxophone orchestra, and accordion-percussion duo km2.
http://www.facebook.com/larapoemusic
http://twitter.com/LaraEPoe
http://soundcloud.com/lara-poe
https://www.larapoe.com/
Releases
CAMPFR101 / La Riviere et la Foret (2018)
Lara Poe is a Finnish-American composer who is currently based in London. She has collaborated with musicians such as the JACK quartet, Dal Niente, Sound Icon, Semiosis quartet, Jonathan Radford, Laura Farre Rosada, Aija Reke, and Timo Kinnunen, and her works have been performed in the US, as well as the UK, Finland, Latvia, Germany, and Taiwan. She has received recognition in several competitions. In 2017, Poe received the BMI Student Composer Award William Schuman Prize for the most outstanding score, and was the winner of the 2016 American Prize in Chamber Music composition, student division. Poe was also a participant in the 2017 Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and her piece Mirror Rim was performed at the 2018 Aldeburgh Festival. She is currently taking part in the 2018-2019 LSO Panufnik Scheme.
Poe is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music, where she received an Mmus with distinction. At the RCM she studied composition with Kenneth Hesketh as her principal composition professor, and she also studied electroacoustic music with Gilbert Nouno. Prior to her studies at the RCM, Poe studied with Martin Amlin, Richard Cornell, Joshua Fineberg, Paavo Korpijaakko, Rodney Lister, Alex Mincek, and Ketty Nez. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from Boston University, and studied at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School while in grade school. While pursuing her bachelor's degree, Poe received the both the Boston University's Wainwright prize and Department of Music Theory and Composition award in 2016, and was inducted into the music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda in April 2016.
Poe's current projects include Sonifying Noise Pollution, which is a collaboration with Royal College of Art graduate Jennifer Haugan. This project is an interactive, multimedia examination of noise pollution levels throughout the UK. Poe and Haugan presented Sonifying Noise Pollution at the 2017 IRCAM forums in April 2017, and are working to include more data points and more interactive features. Other projects include collaborations with saxophonist Jonathan Radford, the Megalopolis Saxophone orchestra, and accordion-percussion duo km2.
http://www.facebook.com/larapoemusic
http://twitter.com/LaraEPoe
http://soundcloud.com/lara-poe
https://www.larapoe.com/
Releases
CAMPFR101 / La Riviere et la Foret (2018)