Shift No. 2

Toccata And Aria

String Quartet No.2

161104_CNMMCSConcert1_ConcertHall

Eva Variations (World Premiere- UI Symphony Orchestra

Five protest songs written in memory of labor rights activist and singer songwriter Joe Hill.

Songs for Joe Hill

Piano-Matthew Umphreys, Cello- Caitlyn Chenault

A Place For Resonance

Space Between

Endless Colored Ways is a work in three movements inspired by musical elements unique to the music of the late sing-song writer Nick Drake.

Endless Colored Ways

Written in collaboration with the Unheard-of//Ensemble

Coalescence Cascade

Music by Michael Lanci
Libretto by Ajax Phillips

A chamber opera in one act.

Crude Capital

A work for solo piano commissioned by pianist Brianna Matzke as part of her album "Something is Happening Here" featuring music written in response to Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 revisited.

https://briannamatzke.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR3JJN8ASNRoHvUqNu_AW2d5esqU9gIVKUz7tijBirGgiDFr4Bobw0Cq6X0

Something is Happening Here

Bound To Fall

Alto Saxophone Duet. Performance by Klangpar2, 2012

Shift no.1

Michael Lanci is a composer and educator currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. His music is viscerally engaging, stylistically diverse and draws from a wide range of influences. Recent projects include a collection of 5 protest songs dedicated to late nineteenth century singer-songwriter and labor rights activist Joe Hill, that was awarded the American Prize along with a new commission as part of the  Beth Morrison Projects Next Generation Competition that will be premiered at National Sawdust in February of 2019.

Michael’s works have been performed at festivals such as the Cortona Sessions,  Edmont Fringe Festival, Orford Festival, Detroit Bureau of Sound, Midwest Composers Symposium and the Vox Novus Festival. He has received commissions from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Beyond Pluck, Unhread-of//Ensemble, Klangpar2, and the Vive! Ensemble. His works have been performed by the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra, Contemporaneous, Hypercube, All Of The Above, Buffalo Chamber Players, Duo d’Entre Deux, and the Decho Ensemble. 

Michael holds a B.M. in piano performance from SUNY Albany, where he also studied composition with Max Lifchitz and a M.M. in composition from SUNY Fredonia, where he studied with Rob Deemer and Karl Boelter. Michael completed his D.M.A. in composition at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati where he studied with Michael Fiday.

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