Lauryn Bomse - Composer & Pianist

Lauryn became deeply committed to music and the arts as a young person and received the Melissa Engestrom Youth Artist Mayor's Award in 1999. She continued her musical education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she graduated with Highest Honors and received the Hortense Zuckerman Prize for outstanding achievement in music scholarship and performance. 

As a composer Lauryn is keen to explore the relationship between the abstract beauty of the natural world and the tangible experience of sound. From the delicate oscillations of particles to the vast expanses of cosmic phenomena, Lauryn uses the landscape of the piano to capture the kinesthetic essence of these elements, translating them into musical forms that evoke movement, texture, and emotion.

Lauryn’s most recent work “Bodies in Motion: 11 Oscillations from the Observable Universe,” is a collection of piano pieces exploring the seen and unseen forces at play in the physical world. From the delicate dance of subatomic particles, to the greater expansion of space, the music encapsulates both the breathtaking beauty and the profound volatility of our greater universe.

Lauryn's composition "Wandering Waltz” will appear on pianist Natasha Stojanovska’s upcoming album The Woman of Many Scarves, a solo piano album featuring works by American women composers.

Lauryn's collection of piano solos for early intermediate pianists titled "A Concert of Creatures" is soon to be released by the Neil A. Kjos Music Company. 

In 2022, Lauryn was commissioned by the Santa Fe Music Teachers Association to compose a set of seven progressive piano solos titled High Desert Wildlife, that are designed to inspire early elementary through early intermediate level piano students. The music from this set has been featured annually in the SFMTA Earth Day concerts for young performers. 

Located in Santa Fe, NM since 2008, Lauryn has been dedicated to community engagement by organizing and performing in benefit concerts to raise funds for local causes such as the Esperanza Women's Shelter and NewMexicoWomen.org. Her annual fundraising concert with New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence has raised over $7000 for gun safety education, community gun buyback events and support for young people facing gun violence in their daily lives.

When not teaching or composing, Lauryn can be found exploring her passion for the circus arts, where she dabbles in aerial silks.