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Leilehua Lanzilotti an two other musicians playing to a small crowd in a warmly lit, cozy gallery.

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti

Former Curator, Music

An experienced curator as well as a highly accomplished violist, composer, scholar, and educator, Lanzilotti began her tenure at EMPAC starting in Spring 2019 and as of April, 2021 is the Director of Community Engagement at Hawai’i Contemporary. During her tenure she developed music residencies and commissions as well as performances and events in continuation of EMPAC’s artistic directions and with her own perspectives.

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti has performed as a violist with many of the world’s leading new music ensembles, including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Signal, Yarn/Wire, and Alarm Will Sound, as well as popular performers such as Björk, Joan Osborne, Devotchka, and She & Him. As a composer, Lanzilotti has been commissioned to create new works for the Noguchi Museum, the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, and the Borderlands Ensemble. A scholar of contemporary and experimental music, she has taught and written on the subject of “extended techniques” for classical musicians, penned program notes for the London Symphony Orchestra, and published in journals such as Music and Literature.

Main Image: Curator Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti performs at the Noguchi Museum with Ashley Jackson and Alice Teyssier in 2018. Photo: Don Stahl.

Events and Residencies

2023

March 18, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Music/Sound, Commission
Bora Yoon
March 9–19, 2023
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Bora Yoon
February 25, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Music/Sound, Commission
Alarm Will Sound
February 15–26, 2023
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Mary Kouyoumdjian and Nigel Maister with Alarm Will Sound and Kevork Mourad

2022

December 7, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Music/Sound, Talk, Commission, Work in Progress
Miya Masaoka
October 10–21, 2022
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Bora Yoon
April 29, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Music/Sound, Commission
Lesley Flanigan
April 18–29, 2022
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Lesley Flanigan
March 2–4, 2022
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Mary Kouyoumdjian and Nigel Maister with Alarm Will Sound and Kevork Mourad
January 7–18, 2022
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Bora Yoon

2021

December 13–17, 2021
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Mary Kouyoumdjian and Nigel Maister with Alarm Will Sound and Kevork Mourad
August 12–16, 2021
Music/Sound, Performance, Commission
Wave Field Synthesis
August 1–December 17, 2021
Season
May 24–June 4, 2021
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Mary Kouyoumdjian and Nigel Maister with Alarm Will Sound and Kevork Mourad
March 12, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Music/Sound, Talk
In conversation with Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti
March 11, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Music/Sound, Talk
In conversation with Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti
March 10, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Music/Sound, Talk
In conversation with Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti
February 18–May 3, 2021
Series
February 18, 2021 at 1:00 pm
Talk
In conversation with Heather Bruegl and Dr. Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti
January 28–29, 2021
Dance/Theater, Music/Sound, Commission
Vanessa Goodman & Caroline Shaw
January 25–April 16, 2021
Season

2020

November 5, 2020 at 3:00 pm
Music/Sound, Talk
A talk with music curator Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti
October 21, 2020 at 6:00 pm
Music/Sound, Talk
Caroline Shaw and Vanessa Goodman
October 18–31, 2020
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Caroline Shaw and Vanessa Goodman
October 15, 2020 at 6:00 pm
Music/Sound, Talk, Commission
Pamela Z
October 6, 2020 at 3:26 pm
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Miya Masaoka
October 6, 2020 at 3:08 pm
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
King Britt & Saul Williams
October 1–December 15, 2020
Season
October 1–16, 2020
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency, Remote Residency
Pamela Z
September 7–17, 2020
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Mary Kouyoumdjian and Nigel Maister with Alarm Will Sound and Kevork Mourad
May 11–June 6, 2020
Music/Sound, Work in Progress
Heartbeat Opera
April 20–May 1, 2020
Music/Sound, Residency, Remote Residency
Heartbeat Opera
March 19, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Music/Sound, Commission
Nina C. Young / American Brass Quintet
March 9–13, 2020
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Lesley Flanigan
February 20–March 20, 2020
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Nina C. Young
January 23–May 8, 2020
Season
January 6–16, 2020
Music/Sound, Commission, Residency
Maria Chávez

2019

December 8–12, 2019
Music/Sound, Residency
Lesley Flanigan
December 4, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Music/Sound
Sarah Hennies
September 20, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Music/Sound
September 4–December 7, 2019
Season