Leilehua Lanzilotti

Leilehua Lanzilotti is a Kanaka Maoli composer, multimedia artist, and curator. By world-building through multimedia installation works, nontraditional concert experiences, and sound interventions, Lanzilotti’s works activate imagination around new paths forward in language sovereignty, water sovereignty, land stewardship, and respect. Lanzilotti crafts projects that uplift native knowledge and intuition, imagine indigenous futures, and encouraging courageous and active listening.

Lanzilotti was honored to be a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music for with eyes the color of time (string orchestra), which the Pulitzer committee called, “a vibrant composition . . . that distinctly combines experimental string textures and episodes of melting lyricism.”

Other honors include Native Arts & Cultures Foundation’s SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts Award, as well as additional distinguished fellowships & residencies through The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Casa Wabi, Bogliasco Foundation, the Merwin Conservancy, the McKnight Visiting Composer Residency Program, and the MacGeorge Fellowship at the University of Melbourne.