Esther Lamneck

Esther Lamneck is an American clarinetist, multimedia technology researcher, program director of Woodwind Studies and the Clarinet Studio at the New York University, and the artistic director of the NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble. She is known as an advocate of contemporary music and actively works with electronic composers. Lamneck is one of a few performers who plays tárogató (also known as Turkish pipe), a single reed woodwind instrument used in Hungarian and Romanian folk music. Esther received her B.M., M.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Juilliard School of Music where she studied clarinet with Stanley Drucker, Robert Listokin, and briefly Rudolf Jettel. Her work in the area of interactive technology includes research with the EyesWeb open software platform which allows for gestural control of live sound and video processing. She collaborated with Cort Lippe, who did real-time processing for both clarinet and tárogató, played in free improve duos with sax player Claudio Lugo and guitarist Eugenio Sanna, and also worked with Roberto Fabbriciani and Marilyn Nonken.