Kevin Laskey is a composer, percussionist, and music writer based in New York City.
Kevin’s compositions live in a netherworld between notated concert music and vernacular styles, drawing from classical, jazz, and American folk idioms alike. He has written for many acclaimed performers, including, PRISM Quartet, Yarn/Wire, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Sō Percussion, Daedalus Quartet, Variant 6, Warp Trio, Bearthoven, Exceptet, Shizuka Duo, trombonist Ray Anderson, pianist Amy Williams, saxophonist Kevin Sun, and The San Francisco Choral Artists, in addition to composing for film and theater.
His current projects include The Snow, Like Me, an evening-length song cycle featuring soprano Molly Netter and poetry by Jill Osier, and Fail Mary, a new opera with librettist Cheri Magid.
Kevin holds a PhD in music composition from the University Pennsylvania, an MA in music composition from Stony Brook University, and a BA in music from Princeton University. He has taught music theory and composition at New York University, Ursinus College, West Chester University, and the University of Pennsylvania, and musical theater orchestration through the Princeton University Triangle Club.