Flannau Duo seeks funds to commission Alexis Lamb to write a big new work for piano and percussion. We hope that this new work will be a staple in the repertoire for piano and percussion for all to enjoy and perform! This work will be premiered on September 7th at Constellation Chicago. Flannau Duo has a matching donor up to $500, so your donation will go twice as far towards our goal! Read all about how awesome Alexis is below:

Alexis C. Lamb (b. 1993) is a composer, percussionist, and educator whose work seeks to cultivate a connectedness to natural, historical, and societal relationships. Her music incorporates a variety of mediums, such as oral histories, field recordings, improvisation, and community input. Lamb’s music has been regarded as “a pleasure in its own right” with “sparkling optimism throughout” (I Care If You Listen).

As a composer, Lamb has collaborated with numerous ensembles and individuals, including Third Coast Percussion, Aizuri Quartet, Opera Omaha, Albany (NY) Symphony, Vera Quartet, Camilla Tassi, Contemporaneous, Indiana University Percussion Ensemble, Emily Roller, Yale Philharmonia, Evan Chapman, University of Nebraska Percussion Ensemble, Arizona State University Symphony Orchestra, and Northern Illinois University World Steelband. Her music has been performed in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Currently, her artistic interests involve exploring the relationships between our human-made music and the music of our natural world. This ongoing fascination has developed into many projects, including concert-length works for chamber orchestra with the living Earth, educational curricula and activities for all ages and abilities, and the development of Refugia Festival, a multidisciplinary event advocating for environmental conservation through sound. 

Lamb is a recipient of a 2022 Presser Foundation Graduate Music Award, a 2021 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 2018 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award. She is currently a 2024-25 Rackham Predoctoral Fellow and successfully defended her doctoral  dissertation in composition at the University of Michigan in February 2025. Lamb earned a Master of Music in Composition at the Yale School of Music and two Bachelor of Music degrees in Music Education and Percussion Performance from Northern Illinois University. Her compositions can be found on Innova Recordings, National Sawdust Tracks, Evan Chapman’s Caustics, and Third Coast Percussion's Currents, Volume 1. When not working on music, she can be found playing board games with her wife at an overly competitive level, teaching new tricks to her dog and two cats, and fishing in every possible body of water. She is originally from Denver, Colorado, and is currently based in Ypsilanti, Michigan.