Felipe Lara

Felipe Lara is a Brazilian-American composer, born in Brazil in 1979 and based in the United States, where he teaches composition at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. He writes orchestral, chamber, vocal and electroacoustic music, and his Double Concerto for esperanza spalding, Claire Chase and orchestra was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Lara moved to the US to study at Berklee College of Music, then took a master's degree at Tufts University and a PhD in composition at New York University.