Lera Auerbach is a poet, writer, visual artist, composer, conductor, librettist and concert pianist. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School in New York and the Hannover University for Music, Drama, and Media. Auerbach's first book in English, Excess of Being (Arch Street Press, 2015), explores the form of aphorisms. In 2021, she was awarded the Robert Creeley Memorial Poetry Prize. Her most recent book A is for Oboe (Penguin Random House, 2022), was written in collaboration with Marilyn Nelson. Auerbach's numerous works for opera, ballet, choir, and orchestra are regularly performed globally. She has collaborated with the National Geographic Society on a multidisciplinary symphonic journey, Arctica. She has also collaborated with Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center - in the creation of Vessels of Light, which received its American premiere at Carnegie Hall in April 2023. Auerbach has also completed training and certification in the field of psychology. She is currently enrolled in the Master Practitioner Program in Neurolinguistics, and studies Ericksonian therapy and hypnosis. Lera Auerbach was elected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. She is a regular contributor to the Best American Poetry Blog.
