Anna Rubin

"To paraphrase Susan Sontag: If music has engaged me as a project, first as a listener and performer, then as composer, it is an extension of my empathetic listening to myself and other selves, my own music and others, to our singular and collective dreams and nightmares."

Anna Rubin composes instrumental and computer-generated music in a variety of genres ranging including solo, chamber, choral and orchestral. Her work has been performed internationally and she is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the New York Foundations for the Arts, the Maryland and Ohio StateArts Councils. She has also received commissions from the New York Council on the Arts, New American Radio, WNYC Radio, the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra, the California EAR Unit and such performers as Thomas Buckner, F. Gerard Errante, Kristen Nordeval and Isabelle Ganz. Her works are recorded on the Capstone, Neuma, Sony and SEAMUS labels and she is published by Leisure Planet.

She has taught at Lafayette College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She is currently on the faculty of the University of Maryland/Baltimore County where she directs an interdisciplinary arts program and teaches composition. She received a Ph.d in composition from Princeton University and studied with Paul Lansky, Mel Powell, Pauline Oliveros and Ton de Leeuw.

Rubin is currently Director of the Linehan Artist Scholar Program and InterArts Studies Program at the University of Maryland/Baltimore County.