Lawrence Siegel, Composer

Lawrence Siegel brings to the writing of Kaddish twenty-five years of experience in creating and directing music and music theater projects using texts from oral histories, interviews, and community dialogues. As the artistic director of Tricinium, he brings his "Verbatim Project" to communities, schools, and organizations around the world. His music has won awards from the McKnight Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and many others. He has been a fellow in composition at the Tanglewood Music Center and three times at the MacDowell Colony. In addition to composing his own concert music, Dr. Siegel has co-written musical theater work with Paul Hodes, Dan Hurlin, Andrew Periale, and Valeria Vasilevski, a symphonic tone poem with Edie Clark, and many other collaborative projects. He has been composer-in-residence at the Eugene O'Neill Puppetry Conference since 1999 and is also a nationally-known performer of traditional music. He has lived primarily in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, since 1986.