Education
Wesleyan University; Columbia University. Columbia University School of the Arts.
Wesleyan University; Columbia University. Columbia University School of the Arts.
His compositions have been performed by a number of international performers and orchestras. As a performer, Lehman leads a number of his own ensembles and performs frequently as a sideman with artists like Anthony Braxton, Vijay Iyer, and Jason Moran. His recording Travail, Transformation & Flow (Pi Recordings 2009) was chosen as the #1 Jazz Album of the year by The New York Times.
Lehman’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Down Beat magazine, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Wire, National Public Radio, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Lehman was a Fulbright scholar from 2002-2003.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts(2000) and Master of Arts(2002) in Composition from Wesleyan University and received his Doctorate.M.A. (2012) with distinction in Music Composition from Columbia University.