About

Violinist and composer Lauren Conroy is a New York-based musician who is passionate about performing contemporary music in dynamic multidisciplinary contexts. She performs solo and ensemble works spanning traditional to modern. An avid performer of new music, she is a member of the BlackBox Ensemble. Lauren has co-produced and performed on several multidisciplinary projects including Juilliard’s Future Stages and NYC Ballet’s Choreographic Institute. She is currently the co-director of composer Hannah Ishizai’s chamber opera titled Tsuru no Ongaeshi, which will premiere in Fall 2025.

Lauren has been invited to several festivals and residencies including Toronto Summer Music Fellowship, Norfolk New Music Workshop, Bowdoin International Music Festival Fellowship, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, and The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Lauren is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she completed her Master of Music and was a Departmental Assistant at The Juilliard School’s Center for Innovation in the Arts. After graduating from Juilliard, she then attended NYU and completed her Master of Arts in Contemporary Chamber Music Performance and Administration as a Koppenaal Scholar. At NYU, she was granted the Dean’s Award for Summer Research where she was a resident scholar at The John Cage Trust at Bard College and directed a multidisciplinary performance project at the NYU Blackbox Theater.

Lauren previously attended Indiana University studying with Simin Ganatra and graduated from the Hutton Honors College and Jacobs School of Music with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Violin Performance. She also completed a minor in Political and Civic Engagement and a certificate in Performing Arts Entrepreneurship.

With a passion for arts administration as well as performing, Lauren is currently the Program Assistant for the School of Music at the 92nd Street Y.