Leilehua Lanzilotti

Leilehua Lanzilotti (born November 5, 1983), is a Kanaka Maoli composer, multimedia artist, performer, and scholar of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Lanzilotti grew up in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Lanzilotti spent much of her childhood playing in the galleries and gardens of The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu as a child where her mother was Curator of Education. Lanzilotti attended Punahou School and Beijing Normal University Middle School No. 2 (School Year Abroad), and then continued her education at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Yale School of Music, and Manhattan School of Music. and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Andrew Norman, Caroline Shaw, Lanzilotti premiered Dai Fujikura’s Viola Concerto, Wayfinder, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre during the 2022 Born Creative Festival. Lanzilotti’s album in manus tuas (New Focus Recordings, 2019), was featured in Bandcamp’s The Best Contemporary Classical Albums of 2019 and The Boston Globe Top 10 Classical Albums of 2019. Other albums including Lanzilotti’s music are forever forward in search of the beautiful (New Focus Recordings), In addition to Lanzilotti’s work as a soloist performing her own wor