Lauren is a composer and educator from Atlanta, Georgia, currently residing in Victoria, BC. She studied for her PhD in music technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is an alumna of the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she studied music composition. She is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Victoria and continues to be active in music projects with collaborators in Atlanta and across North America . 

Lauren has had compositions performed around North America and in Europe. This includes her piece for piano, Shake the Earth, which was performed in Morehead, Kentucky, at Morehead State University’s Contemporary Piano Festival, along with being performed in Eugene, Oregon, at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers’ Symposium. She additionally writes music for various chamber and vocal ensembles and especially enjoys developing works using music technology of various sorts.  Along with composing, Lauren also enjoys playing classical music and jazz on the clarinet and piano, spending time with family and friends, and traveling.