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Flutist of choice for hoards of composers, Margaret Lancaster is an artist who hasn’t merely ‘pushed the envelope’ of flute performance and repertoire, she’s redefined it with fearless technique, musicianship, wit, and a clear sense of performance values. Noted for her inter-disciplinary collaboration with writers and composers, she has built a large repertoire of contemporary flute works composed specifically for her, that employ extended techniques, dance, drama, multi-media, and electronics. Composers and directors she has worked with include Lee Breuer, Chen Shi Zheng, Kameron Steele, Milton Babbitt, Larry Polansky, Eve Beglarian, Jon Appleton, Phil Kline, Gerhard Stabler, Paul Steenhuisen, Christian Wolff, Jo Kondo, Jacob Ter Veldhuis, Corey Dargel, Joan LaBarbara, and the Common Sense Composers Collective. Current collaborations include theatrical works with Arthur Kampela, Milica Paranosic, and Karen Kandel.
A recurring performer at Spoleto Festival USA, Three Two Festival and Santa Fe New Music, Lancaster is a member of Essential Music, Glass Farm Ensemble and Downtown Ensemble, and has been a guest artist with Counter)induction, Sequitur, Ne(x)tworks and the Talujon Percussion Quartet. Recent performance highlights include the Lincoln Center Festival (w/ the Merce Cunningham Dance Co.), Festival de Otono, Whitney Museum, Subtropics Festival, Festival D’Automne, Edinburgh Festival and Bremen MusikFest with Absolute. She has appeared as a lecturer/soloist at many sites including Stanford University, Dartmouth College Festival of New Musics, Princeton University, Bennington College, North Carolina School of the Arts, and the National Flute Association.
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She has recorded on New World Records (on which her latest solo CD Io will soon be released), OO Discs, Innova, Naxos and Tzadik, and was selected for Meet the Composer’s New Music for Soloist Champions Project. Lancaster has choreographed children’s musicals at Concordia Conservatory where she teaches flute and regularly performs in the Musical Adventures series as Miss Lancer the Dancer. Her screen credits include lead roles in the independent features “Rockabilly Vampire” and”Ultraviolet City” and appears in the fitness video Balletbootcamp. For over five years she has been acting in the Obie-winning Mabou Mines production DOLLHOUSE (their most recent appearance – a 4 week run at St. Ann’s Warehouse in NYC – was just nominated for a 2008-09 Drama League Award for distinguised revival of a play)
Lancaster resides in New York City where she acts, dances, choreographs, designs furniture, and plays the flute.
