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"Our leading exponent of the avant-garde flute"
-Kyle Gann, THE VILLAGE VOICE
Flutist of choice for hoards of composers, Margaret Lancaster is an
artist who hasn't merely 'pushed the envelope' of flute performance
and repertoire, she's redefined it with fearless technique, musicianship,
wit, and a clear sense of performance values. Noted for her inter-disciplinary
collaboration with writers and composers, she has built a large repertoire
of contemporary flute works composed specifically for her, that employ
extended techniques, dance, drama, multi-media, and electronics.
A recurring performer at Spoleto Festival USA, Three Two Festival and Santa Fe New Music, Lancaster is a member of Essential Music, Glass Farm Ensemble and Downtown Ensemble, and
has been a guest artist with Counter)induction, Ne(x)tworks and the Talujon Percussion Quartet. Recent performance highlights include the Lincoln Center Festival (w/ the Merce Cunningham Dance Co.), Festival de Otono (Madrid), Whitney Museum, Subtropics Festival, Festival D'Automne (Paris), Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and Bremen MusikFest
with Absolute. She has appeared as a lecturer/soloist at many sites
including Stanford University, Dartmouth College Festival of New Musics,
Princeton University, Bennington College, North Carolina School of
the Arts, and the National Flute Association annual convention. Lancaster
is the recipient of a 2003 Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA
grant for a new multi-disciplinary solo work by Carolyn Yarnell. She will soon be recording for New World Records, who received an Aaron Copland recording grant to produce her CD of solo and chamber works for flute by American Experimental composers.
Selected for Meet the Composer's New Works for Soloist Champions project, she is currently collaborating with Joan La Barbara on a new solo performance piece. Other Musical theater pieces and interdisciplinary collaborations she has performed include works by Karlheinz
Stockhausen, Eve Beglarian (w/ director Shi Zheng Chen), Phil Kline, Corey Dargel, Frederic Rzewski, Milica Paranosic, Gerhard Stabler, Sal Martirano, Robert
Cantrick (for which the The New York Times cited "a virtuoso
versatility was both demanded and achieved"), and Jon Appleton
whose Stop Time is a lively performance piece for tap-dancing flutist.
Lancaster has choreographed childrenšs musicals at Concordia Conservatory
where she teaches flute and regularly performs in the Musical Adventures
series as Miss Lancer the Dancer. Her screen credits include lead
roles in the independent features "Rockabilly Vampire" and"Ultraviolet
City" and appears in the fitness video Balletbootcamp.¨ For over three years she has been acting in the Obie-winning Mabou Mines production Dollhouse. Upcoming tour sites include Rome, Singapore and the Edinburgh Festival .
Lancaster has recorded on OO Discs, Columbia Records, Naxos, New Albion, and Tzadik.
Her acclaimed solo CD Future Flute is a collection of new electroacoustic works, all of which have been written specifically for her. It is distributed through The
Orchard and Maor
Music Publications. Lancaster resides in New York City where she
acts, dances, choreographs, designs furniture, and plays the flute.
Site design by Taimur Sullivan
Photos by Robin Holland 
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