Lera auerbach biography of barack

"I want listeners to feel free, to let their own imagination run wild and to draw from their own dreams and memories." Lera Auerbach was born in the Urals in and has lived in the United States since She wrote her first opera at the age of 12, and has since composed over works.

She does not limit herself to music, but is also creative as a poet and visual artist. Often, extra-musical inspirations serve as triggers for a composition. 

The Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, together with the Prague Philharmonic Choir, will perform her Symphony No.

6, "Vessels of Light," commissioned by Yad Vashem, the International Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem and the American Society for Yad Vashem (NOV 11). Also featured is her cello concerto "Diary of a Madman" with Gautier Capuçon, who also premiered it with the Munich Philharmonic in (MAY 11).

The Collenbusch Quartet performs their String Quartet No. 3 "Cetera Desunt" (APR 7), and the Dresden Ph