Libby Larsen is one of America’s most performed living composers. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2024, she has composed more than 500 works for orchestra, opera, vocal and chamber music, symphonic winds and band. Her work is widely recorded. An advocate for the music and musicians of our time, in 1973 Libby co-founded the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composers Forum. Grammy Award winner and former holder of the Papamarkou Chair at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, she has also held residencies with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony and the Colorado Symphony. From 2014–2020, as artistic director of the John Duffy Institute for New Opera, she guided a faculty of practicing professional artists in nurturing and production of new opera by American Composers. Her 2017 biography, Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life, by Denise Von Glahn, is available from the University Illinois Press.