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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 received her ba in music from yale university in 2004, studying with john halle, matthew suttor, and kathryn alexander. she holds a second ba in near eastern languages and civilizations, specializing in the religious chant traditions of the middle east. in new haven she studied torah cantillation with rebecca boggs and quranic chanting with dr. abd al hamid. she is very excited to be starting the composition program at princeton this fall.
fefferman's music has been heard by audiences in princeton; new haven; new york; north adams, massachusetts; and kansas city, missouri. she has created concert music, film scores, and sound installations. she has received commissions from: the yale collegium musicum, under the direction of richard lalli; the timothy dwight chamber players of yale university; film maker fred guerrier; and most recently from the international social insect research foundation for a multimedia piece incorporating the images and sounds of bees. during the summer of 2003, she was a composer in residence at the bang on a can summer institute where she studied both composition and gamelan performance, also joining the all-stars on kazoo in performances of louis andriessen's worker's union.