Peter Van Zandt Lane

Composer

Peter Van Zandt Lane is an American composer of instrumental and electroacoustic concert music. Recipient of the 2018 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Peter has received fellowships from Copland House, Composers Now, Yaddo, and MacDowell Colony. Recent works include Radix Tyrannis, a concerto for Joseph Alessi commissioned by American Chamber Winds, Piano Quartet: The Longitude Problem commissioned by the Atlanta Chamber Players, and Chamber Symphony commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for EQ Ensemble (Boston). His electroacoustic ballet for Juventas Ensemble (Boston) and the People Movers Contemporary Dance (Brooklyn), HackPolitik, was a New York Times Critic’s Pick, praised for “exploring anarchy and activism in a refreshingly relevant way.” Peter holds degrees from Brandeis University and the University of Miami Frost School of Music, and is currently Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music in Athens, Georgia.