Lydia Busler-Blais

Hornist and composer LYDIA BUSLER-BLAIS began her career performing at age 16 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and composing music for high school dance troupes. Lydia has since performed with the New York City Ballet, Brooklyn Philharmonic, José Limón Dance Company, and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, as well as holding the position of Solo Horn with the Rome Festival Opera. Ms. Busler-Blais has formed collaborative partnerships with pianists Elizabeth Metcalfe, Simone Dinnerstein and Mary Au, violinists Raymond Karl Malone and Jose Miguel Cueto, cellist Robert Blais, hornist Jeffrey Agrell and the Starlight Horn Duo.

Soloist, lyric improvisationalist and composer (ASCAP), Lydia's compositions are performed by artists around the world. In honor of the 2011 Year of the Vermont Composer, Lydia was awarded by the Consortium of Vermont Composers for the war-time opera One Way In, written with playwright Lars Nielsen, and by the International Horn Society Meir Rimon Commissioning Fund for Lanterns, commissioned for and performed around the US by the ZINKALI trio (Elise Carter – flute, Susan LaFever – horn, Laura Ravotti – piano). In the same year, her vocal folk work with cello, guitar, and doumbek collaborating with Jesse Lovasco was performed at the Vermont Statehouse for the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and Lydia's work Journale was composed for and performed by flutist Aleksandr Haskin with pianist Mary Au at the Nixon Library in Los Angeles as well as throughout Southern California. 

Lydia has been honored with initiation into the Los Angeles Chapter of the international professional music fraternity Mu Phi Epsilon and is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Her works are published by the Westleaf Edition and you can view or download Lydia's catalogue here.

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