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Han Lash
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About Han Lash
Lash's compact sequence of pale brush strokes, ghostly keening and punchy outbursts was striking and resourceful; you hoped to hear it again...
– Steve Smith, The New York Times
Hailed by The New York Times as “striking and resourceful…handsomely brooding,” Han Lash’s music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall, Lincoln Center, the Times Center in Manhattan, the Chicago Art Institute, Tanglewood Music Center, Harvard University, The Aspen Music Festival & School, The Chelsea Art Museum, and on the American Opera Project’s stage in New York City. Commissions include The Fromm Foundation, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Chamber Music Northwest, the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, American Composers Orchestra, Columbia University’s Miller Theatre, The Naumburg Foundation, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Arditti Quartet, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Colorado Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival and School, among many others.
Han Lash began studying music and dance at an early age and was a serious performer and composer by their early teens. They were accepted to the prestigious Eastman School of Music at the age of 15 and enrolled in the bachelor's program at age 16. After studies in harp and composition at Eastman, Lash received an Artist Diploma in harp from the Cleveland Institute of Music, a PhD in composition from Harvard University, and an Artist Diploma in composition from Yale University.
Lash has received numerous honors and prizes, including the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, a Charles Ives Scholarship (2011) and Fellowship (2016) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fromm Foundation Commission, a Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant, a fellowship from Yaddo Artist Colony, the Naumburg Prize in Composition, the Barnard Rogers Prize in Composition, the Bernard and Rose Sernoffsky Prize in Composition, and numerous academic awards. Han Lash's orchestral work Furthermore was selected by the American Composers Orchestra for the 2010 Underwood New Music Readings. Lash's chamber opera, Blood Rose, was presented by New York City Opera’s VOX in the spring of 2011.
The New York Times music critic Steve Smith praised Lash’s work for the JACK Quartet, Frayed: “Lash’s compact sequence of pale brush strokes, ghostly keening and punchy outbursts was striking and resourceful; you hoped to hear it again…” Esteemed music critic Bruce Hodges lauded Lash’s piece Stalk for solo harp as being “appealing…florid, and introspective.”
In addition to performances in the USA, Lash’s music is also well known internationally. In April of 2008, Lash's string quartet Four Still was performed in Kiev in the Ukraine’s largest international new music festival, “Premieres of the Season,” curated by Carson Cooman. In the summer of 2010, Han Lash's piece Unclose was premiered by members of Eighth Blackbird at the MusicX festival in Blonay, Switzerland. In 2016, the chamber orchestra work This Ease saw its German premiere and was selected as “audience favorite” in performances by the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz, conducted by Hermann Bäumer.
Recent premieres include the multi-movement orchestral work The Voynich Symphony by the New Haven Symphony, Form and Postlude for Chamber Music Northwest, a new Requiem for the Yale Choral Artists, How to Remember Seeds for The Calidore String Quartet, Three Shades Without Angles, for flute, viola and harp, by the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Two Movements for violin and piano, commissioned by the Library of Congress for Ensemble Intercontemporain, and a new chamber opera, Beowulf, for Guerilla Opera, as well as several new orchestral works: Chaconnes, for the New York Philharmonic's Biennial, Eating Flowers, for the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Nymphs, for the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and This Ease, for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, as well as two concerti for harp premiered by the American Composers Orchestra (Concerto No. 1 for Harp and Chamber Orchestra) and the Colorado Music Festival (Concerto No. 2 for Harp and Orchestra), both with Lash as soloist.
Other recent premieres include God Music Bug Music (2011) with the Minnesota Orchestra, the monodrama Stoned Prince (2013) by loadbang, Subtilior Lamento (2012) with the Da Capo Chamber Players at Carnegie Hall, and Glockenliebe (2012), for three glockenspiels, with Talujon Percussion. Lash's 2011 orchestral work, Hush, was featured on the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2013 Brooklyn Festival. In 2016, Lash was honored with a Composer Portrait Concert at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre, which included newly commissioned works for pianist Lisa Moore (Six Etudes and a Dream) and loadbang (Music for Eight Lungs). Lash's Piano Concerto No. 1 “In Pursuit of Flying” was premiered by Jeremy Denk and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; the Atlantic Classical Orchestra debuted Facets of Motion for orchestra, and Music for Nine, Ringing was performed at the Music Academy of the West School and Festival. Paul Appleby and Natalia Katyukova premiered Songs of Imagined Love, a song cycle commissioned by Carnegie Hall, in 2018, and in 2019, Lash's chamber opera, Desire, premiered at Miller Theatre to great acclaim. Lash's Double Concerto for piano and harp was premiered by the Naples Philharmonic, and Forestallings, a musical response to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D Major, was premiered by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Lash’s double harp concerto, The Peril of Dreams was premiered by the Seattle Symphony in November 2021, with the composer as one of the featured soloists. Han Lash's music is published exclusively by Schott Music Corporation (New York).
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Chronology
Awarded a Fromm Music Foundation Commission for "Filigree in Textile" and the Naumburg Foundation Prize in Composition
Obtained her Ph.D in Composition from Harvard University
Awarded the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Minnisota Orchestra premieres "God Music Bug Music", led by Osmo Vänskä, as part of the Minnisota Orchestra Composers Institute
Awarded the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award
Yale University appoints Lash as Assistant Professor of Composition.
Lash appointed composer-in-residence with Alabama Symphony Orchestra as well as Sound Investment Composer with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
Awarded a Chamber Music America Commissioning Grant for "Leander and Hero", for woodwind quintet.
Recipient of an Aaron Copland House Residency Award.
Loadbang releases premiere recording of "Stoned Prince" on ANALOG Arts.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra premieres "This Ease", led by Jeffrey Kahane, and Courtney Lewis conducts the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in the debut of "Nymphs".
"Eating Flowers", for orchestra, premieres at Cabrillo Music Festival, led by Marin Alsop.
American Composers Orchestra premieres "Concerto No. 1 for Harp and Chamber Orchestra", co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Orchestra of the Swan, with Lash as soloist and George Manahan conducting.
Lash serves as composer in residence with New Haven Symphony and the orchestra commissions "The Voynich Symphony", a large-scale orchestral work in four parts.
Lash's chamber opera "Beowulf" premieres with Guerilla Opera, directed by Andrew Eggert.
Awarded the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Colorado Music Festival debuts "Concerto No. 2 for Harp and Chamber Orchestra" with Lash as soloist.
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a chamber opera in two actsComposer: Han LashMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialInstrumentation: chamber ensembleLanguage: EnglishHire/performance materialHire/performance material
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(Sing-Psalms are False)Composer: Han LashEdition: Choral scoreInstrumentation: mixed choir (SATB), harp, piano, and percussion (vibraphone, tubular bells, timpani, percussion)Product number: ED 30408-01Product TypeIn stockAs low as €98.99Incl. Tax
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(Sing-Psalms are False)Composer: Han LashEdition: Score and partsInstrumentation: mixed choir (SATB), harp, piano, and percussion (vibraphone, tubular bells, timpani, percussion)Product number: ED 30408Product TypeIn stockAs low as €189.99Incl. Tax
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for solo pianoComposer: Han LashMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: ScoreInstrumentation: solo pianoProduct number: ED 30394Print editionPrint editionOut of stock€22.00Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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