Margaret Lancaster

Margaret Lancaster likes to act, dance, and play the flute. Hailed by Kyle Gann in The Village Voice as the "leading exponent of the avant-garde flute," she has built a large repertoire of new works that employ extended techniques, dance, drama, multi-media, and electronics.

Lancaster is a member of Essential Music and the Downtown Ensemble and a recurring performer at Spoleto Festival USA, BONK Festival of New Music, Three Two Festival, and Santa Fe New Music. Performance highlights include Lincoln Center Festival, Paul Zukofsky's Musical Observations, Bargemusic, and Bremen Musikfest with Absolute Ensemble. Her lecturer/soloist appearances include Dartmouth College, Princeton University, North Carolina School of the Arts, and the National Flute Association.

She has worked with Milton Babbitt, Larry Polansky, Jon Appleton, Steve Mackey, Gerhard Stabler, Christian Wolff, Jo Kondo, and the Common Sense Composers Collective, among others. Current collaborations include The Bilitis Project with Eve Beglarian and Phil Kline. Lancaster is the recipient of a 2005 Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA grant for a new multi-disciplinary solo work by composer Carolyn Yarnell.

Lancaster resides in New York City. In addition to her musical projects, she can be seen on stage in the ongoing Mabou Mines production Dollhouse.