Lera Auerbach

Lera Auerbach is a Russian-born composer and pianist, born in Chelyabinsk in 1973, who received her early musical training in Russia before establishing an international career in contemporary classical music. Her output includes orchestral and chamber works, operas, choral pieces and solo piano repertoire characterised by a fusion of Eastern European melodic influences, literary and philosophical references, and a range of contemporary compositional techniques.