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Alice Anne LeBaron (b. 30 May 1953 in Baton Rouge) is an American harpist, composer and university lecturer working in the interstices of avant-garde jazz, new music and free improvisation

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Life

Anne LeBaron earned a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Alabama in 1974 and a master of arts in music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1978; she received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1989. In 1979 she played in a duo with Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith. She studied with György Ligeti as a Fulbright scholar at the Musikhochschule Köln in 1980/81 and traditional Korean music at The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts in Seoul in 1983.

In 1991, she recorded the album Phantom Orchestra with the Anne LeBaron Quintet, which consisted of Davey Williams, trumpeter Frank London, tuba player Marcus Rojas, drummer Gregg Bendian and LeBaron, who recorded electronics as well as harp. In 1992, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship grant. In 1995, LeBaron participated in Muhal Richard Abrams’ album One Line, Two Views. She has also worked with Georg Gräwe (Chamber Works, 1991/92), Erhart Hirt, John Lindberg, Myra Melford and Earl Howard (1999). In 2000, her album Sacred Theory of the Earth [Telluris Theoria Sacra] was released on CRI Emergency. The Newband recorded their composition Southern Ephemera (1993).

LeBaron began teaching at the California Institute of the Arts in 2001, having previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh. She composed for her Anne LeBaron Quintet and in 2005 the opera Wet.

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