Tania Lanfer is a composer and pianist from Sao Paulo, Brazil. After finishing her undergraduate course at the University of Sao Paulo majoring in Piano Performance (2005), she lived for six months in Berlin, Germany, where she was a guest student in the Elektronische Studio at Technische Universität (2006). She lived for two years at Stanford (California, USA), studying composition with Erik Ulman and attending to courses by Mark Applebaum and Brian Ferneyhough. Currently she is doing her Master Degree in Music Composition at UCSD - University of California, San Diego where she studies with Roger Reynolds.