Biography

Lauren Greenberg is a composer and performer from Toronto, Canada. Her music has been performed by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, Peterborough Concert Band, The Odin Quartet, Contemporaneous, Yarn/Wire, Splinter Reeds, BlackBox Ensemble, The Rhythm Method, The Untitled Ensemble, Factory Seconds, Arx Duo, and Stellae Boreales.

Lauren was one of five composers selected from across Canada to participate in the 2024 Winnipeg New Music Festival Composers Institute, where her orchestral composition Bonds Of Cosmic Origins was premiered by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. More recently, she has participated in the ICEBERG Institute, LunART Festival Composers’ Hub, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s Pathways: Choral Creation program, Heidelberg New Music Festival, EMERGE New Music Readings, the Screen Composers Guild of Canada Mentorship Program, Aria Institute’s Really Spicy Opera, and the Soheil Shirangi Summer Mentorship Program.

Lauren earned a Master of Music in Composition from NYU Steinhardt, where she studied with Julia Wolfe and Herschel Garfein. She graduated from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee with a Bachelor of Music in Composition and a minor in Screen Scoring from Berklee College of Music, studying with Eun Young Lee, Marti Epstein, Timothy McCormack, and Victoria Cheah. She also studied composition privately with Canadian composers Kevin Lau and Saman Shahi. Lauren currently serves as Outreach Manager for the Association of Canadian Women Composers.