Felipe Lara serves as Associate Professor and Chair of the Composition Department at the
Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. He has previously held teaching positions at Boston
Conservatory at Berklee and the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University. He has also served as
a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard's Department
of Music, where he was recognized with two Harvard Excellence in Teaching Awards.
Having been honored with a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship from Harvard
University, Lara holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from New York University (GSAS), where he was a
distinguished Henry M. MacCracken Fellow. He also obtained a Master’s of Music degree from Tufts
University and a Bachelor's degree from Berklee College of Music.