Han Lash facts for kids
Han Lash (born 1981) is an American composer. A composer is someone who writes music. Han Lash writes music for concerts. They have also taught music at famous schools like Yale.
About Han Lash
Han Lash was born in Alfred, New York, USA. This was on November 22, 1981. They started learning music when they were very young. Han Lash loved music and kept studying it as they grew up. They went to several great music schools. These include the Eastman School of Music and Yale School of Music. They also studied at Harvard University.
In 2013, Han Lash started teaching music at the Yale School of Music. They were also a special composer for some orchestras. These included the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
Han Lash writes many different kinds of music. In 2016, they wrote new pieces for a concert at Columbia University. In 2017 and 2018, their Piano Concerto No. 1 was played for the first time. It was performed by Jeremy Denk and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. They also wrote Facets of Motion for an orchestra.
In 2018 and 2019, a new song cycle called Songs of Imagined Love was first performed. It was written for Carnegie Hall. Han Lash also wrote an opera called Desire. It was shown in October 2019.
Han Lash is also a talented harp player. They often play their own music on the harp. In 2019, their Concerto for piano and harp was played for the first time. In 2021, they played their double harp concerto, The Peril of Dreams. They performed it with the Seattle Symphony.
In 2022, Han Lash became a professor at the Jacobs School of Music. This school is part of Indiana University.
Many orchestras have asked Han Lash to write music for them. These include the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra. Their chamber music has also been played by groups like the JACK Quartet. Their music has been heard in famous places. These include Carnegie Hall and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Han Lash has received many awards for their music. Some of these include the Naumburg Prize and the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. They also received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Their music is published by Schott.
Selected Works
Here are some of the musical pieces Han Lash has written:
Orchestral
- Music for Loss
- God Music Bug Music
- Hush
- Facets of Motion
- Forestallings
- Double Concerto
- Fault Lines (flute concerto)
- The Peril of Dreams
Chamber
- Total Internal Reflection (string quartet)
- Frayed (string quartet)
- Four Still (string quartet)
- Glockenliebe (three glockenspiels)
- C (piano and vibraphone)
- Filigree in Textile (harp and string quartet)
- Octet: Selves (violin consort or string orchestra)
- Folksongs (piccolo, percussion, harp)
- Subtilior, Lamento (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello)
- Friction, Pressure, Impact (cello and piano)
- Three Movements for Horn Trio (violin, horn, piano)
- The Nature of Breaking (harp and ensemble)
- Leander and Hero (wind quintet)
Choral
- Requiem Pro Avibus Mortuis (for choir and solo singers)
Vocal/Dramatic
- Desire (chamber opera)
- Blood Rose (for singers and string quartet)
- Violations (for singers, pianos, vibraphones, and electronics)
- Songs of Imagined Love (for piano and voice)
Solo
- Stalk (for harp)
- Etudes, book 1 (for piano)
- Secrets (for trumpet and electronics)
- Silvers (“loeboe”)
