Laura Rose Schwartz
Laura Rose Schwartz is an educator, composer, and video projectionist. Her music explores written notation as a facilitator of a performer’s own creativity and self-formation. She blends elements of traditionally notation scores, verbally notated scores, and illuminated manuscripts situating the participant in a space of their own curiosity and creativity. Schwartz uses cellphones, combs, and cut flowers to highlight everyday technologies as shapers of our lived sound environments. She regularly performs guided improvisations on amplified electric fans and graphing calculators. Her work creates an experience where listening resonates with curiosity. Her current collaboration with Anna Elder involves amplified heartbeats and voice.
In 2017, she won the Margert Blackburn and Dead Elf awards for her string quartet Wreathes, and her first CD recording For My Mother is from Durward Contemporary Chamber Ensemble on their CD, Daughters of Earth. Other recent performance of Laura’s music include the Oregon Bach Festival Composer’s Symposium, Nief Norf festival, Yarn/Wire Institute, Los Angeles Percussion Quartet Composers Initiative, Montréal Contemporary Music Lab, the Composer’s Conference, and the Beyond 2020: Microtonal Music Festival.