Lawrence Irving Wilde

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Lawrence Irving Wilde
BornYuri Boguinia (1991-04-05) 5 April 1991 (age 33)
Stavropol, Stavropol Krai, Russia
OriginBoulder, Colorado US
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)
  • Composer
  • Educator
Instruments
  • Violin
  • Vocals
  • Keyboards
LabelsSoundInk
Websitewww.lawrencewilde.com

Lawrence Irving Wilde (born Yuri Boguinia, April 5, 1991), is an American composer. He studied music at the Juilliard School and Princeton University. He has worked with ensembles such as the Kronos  Quartet,[1] Eighth Blackbird, JACK Quartet, ÆON Music Ensemble Archived 2018-08-04 at the Wayback Machine,  Sō Percussion, Tesla Quartet, Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, Moscow String Quartet Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Ensemble Mise-En, Juilliard Orchestra and others. In 2013 Wilde became "one of the youngest composers ever commissioned by Kronos".[2]

Education[change | change source]

Wilde completed his undergraduate studies at the Juilliard School where he worked with Samuel Adler and Christopher Rouse. Wilde went on to do a PhD at Princeton University where he worked with Steven Mackey, Dmitri Tymoczko and Dan Trueman. In 2015 Wilde was named a Bang on a Can Summer Festival Fellow and worked with composers David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon at MASS MOCA.

References[change | change source]

  1. "Kronos Quartet to commemorate World War I in music and film Oct. 8 at CU-Boulder". CU Presents. 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  2. "Kronos Quartet". kronosquartet.org. Retrieved 2018-07-06.