Annea Lockwood
"One of the biggest discoveries to influence my later work happened when I simply set up a microphone at the window and recorded the sound environment ... I started to listen to the sounds around me like one great composition."
Composer of instrumental and electronic music, installations, and soundscapes, Annea Lockwood collaborates with choreographers, sound poets, and other artists. She explores the physical, natural and human world, using the sounds of glass, earthquakes, rivers, exotic instruments ...
Her music has been performed at many venues and festivals including The Whitney Museum, Engine 27, Walker Art Center,Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne, New Music America (NYC, Houston, Chicago), P.S.1, N.Y., Purcell Room, London, CNMAT, Berkeley; Lincoln Center, NY, Asia-Pacific Festival, Wellington, New Zealand. Awards and honors include: Rockefeller Foundation residency at the Bellagio Conference and Study Center 1999,Honorary Doctorate, Clark University, Worcester, MS 1999,NYSCA Recording Grant 1982,MacDowell Colony residency 1982, NEA Fellowship 1979, Creative Artists Public Service Award 1977, Gulbenkian Foundation (UK) 1972 & 1973, Arts Council of Great Britain 1970-73 ...
Annea Lockwood recently retired from a faculty position at Vassar College. She actively composes and performs worldwide.
Available CDs
Photo by Joel Chadabe
