Libby Larsen

Prolific and garlanded with honors, composer Libby Larsen writes music that is lively and innovative without losing a connection to general audiences. Larsen is particularly noted as a composer for voices and for orchestrations. Elizabeth Brown Larsen was born in Dover, Delaware, on December 24, 1950. When she was three, the family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota; her career has remained closely associated with Minnesota, and she still lives in her family's first house there. Her father was a Dixieland jazz clarinetist, and her mother enjoyed boogie-woogie piano; Larsen would...