Eve Beglarian, composer

Beginnings: "I grew up in Los Angeles myself, in that wonderfully complex city of people from somewhere else.”

Raves: her music is “an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements” — Los Angeles Times; "One of new music's truly free spirits" — The Village Voice; a "remarkable experimentalist" — New York Times

Commissions with: American Composers Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, California EAR Unit, Relâche, Paul Dresher Ensemble, Orchestra X, Sequitur, Dinosaur Annex, and for directors and choreographers such as Victoria Marks, Ann Carlson, Susan Marshall, and Robert La Fosse

Music for theater: Mabou Mines' Obie-winning Dollhouse, Animal Magnetism, Ecco Porco, and Choephorai directed by Lee Breuer; Hildegurls' Ordo Virtutum, directed by Grethe Barrett Holby, which premiered at the Lincoln Center Festival; Forgiveness, a collaboration with Chen Shi-Zheng and Noh master Akira Matsui; and the China National Beijing Opera Theater's production of The Bacchae, also directed by Chen Shi-Zheng

Current projects: FeedForward, a dance-theater piece collaboration with choreographer David Neumann scored for multiple trombones premiering at Dance Theater Workshop in October of 2007; The Man in the Black Suit, an opera based on Stephen King’s story, with co-librettist and director Grethe Barrett Holby; and A Book of Days, a long-term project of 365 multimedia pieces for live performance as well as internet delivery

Recordings: on New World Records, CRI Emergency Music, OO Discs, Cantaloupe, Accurate Distortion, Atavistic, and Kill Rock Stars. Her newest CD is a recording of From A Far-Off Country, a collaboration with cellist Maya Beiser and visual artist Shirin Neshat

Web site: www.evbvd.com