Jake Landau

Jake Landau (he/him), b. 1995, is an American composer of opera, musical theater, and instrumental music. His works have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Houston Grand Opera, and leading stars of opera and Broadway in venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall and the legendary Birdland Jazz Club. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree under John Corigliano at The Juilliard School and his MSt with First Class Honours from the University of Oxford, where he is currently a DPhil candidate at Christ Church.

Landau is the youngest-ever winner of the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; one of NYFOS’S (New York Festival of Song) “9 under 34” composers; a board member of experimental theater company Off-Brand Opera; a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford; and an Extension-Division faculty member at Juilliard in New York. He is represented by UIA Talent Agency.