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As a composer and multimedia artist, Lainie Fefferman crosses stylistic boundaries and defies conventional genre classification. Her music draws from a wide range of influences: classical and folk, western and non-western, spiritual and zany. She has worked with visual artists, filmmakers, choreographers, and all styles of musical performers. Her past, present and future collaborators include: pianist Michael Mizrahi, electric guitar quartet Dither, So Percussion, the New York Virtuoso Singers, and the Yale Collegium Musicum. Her recent performance projects include avant-garde vocal trio Celestial Mechanics (with Anne Hege and Sarah Paden) and post-minimalist folk funk band Tonic Generation (with Alex Temple on melodica, Sara Phillips Budde on clarinet, and James Moore on banjo). She got her B.A. from Yale in both Music and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (focusing largely on the chant traditions of Judaism and Islam) and is currently enjoying the pursuit of a PhD from Princeton in composition. As a side career, she has enjoyed rich success with her soulful kazoo playing, including a performance of Louis Andriessen’s “Worker’s Union”with the Bang on a Can All-Stars. She has participated in workshops including: the Sentieri Selvaggi composer workshop in Milan (with Julia Wolfe), the Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble Workshop in New York City, the Bang on a Can Summer Residency in North Adams, Massachusetts, and the Summer Arabic Music Retreat with Simon Shaheen at Mount Holyoke College.