Now at Copland House

The music of Honolulu-based composer, multimedia artist, and curator LEILEHUA LANZILOTTI. explores dramatic expanses of color and timbre. By world-building through multimedia installation works and nontraditional concert experiences and musical interventions, her works activate imagination around new paths forward in language sovereignty, water sovereignty, land stewardship, and respect. She was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in 2022 for her string orchestra piece with eyes the color of time, and a 2025 USA Fellow, and has won a Creative Capital Award, the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation’s SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts Award. She has also had fellowships and residencies through The Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio Center, Casa Wabi, Merwin Conservancy, McKnight Visiting Composer Residency Program, and University of Melbourne (MacGeorge Fellowship). Her works have been presented at Ars Electronica (Austria), the Thailand International Composition Festival, and Dots+Loops (Australia), and at the Philharmonie de Paris and Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre. She is a member of the network of musicians and artists in the Wandelweiser collective.