Sun 8.14 Within Her Arms

ANNA CLYNE (b. 1980)

“Between the hardcore avant-garde camp and the approachable post-minimalists is composer Anna Clyne who combines lyrical instrumental writing with swirling electronic soundscapes” —The New Yorker

Anna Clyne is a composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Her work includes collaborative projects with cutting-edge choreographers, filmmakers, visual artists, and musicians, and has been commissioned and performed worldwide. She is currently one of Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Mead Composers-in-Residence, along with Mason Bates. Raised in the U.K., she began her musical studies on a piano with randomly missing keys. As she began to find her way across the keyboard, she simultaneously began to compose. At the age of 11, she wrote and performed her first fully notated piece for flute and piano. She continued to compose sporadically, moving to Edinburgh in 1998, then to Ontario in 2000 and finally to New York in 2002. Clyne’s commissions include American Composers Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Electric Kompany, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, Opus 21, Janus Trio, Jerome Foundation, and the Los Angeles–based Hysterica Dance Company, where she is resident composer. Anna Clyne has composed for and been programmed by such artists as Björk, Martin Scorsese, ETHEL, and BalletX. Her orchestral works have been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and Manhattan School of Music’s Composers Orchestra, to name a few. As a passionate collaborator, Anna Clyne has worked with many of today’s most inventive and pioneering artists including choreographers Kitty McNamee, Leda Meredith, Pascal Rekoert; painter Y.J. Cho; sound artists Jody Elff, and Jeremy Flower; filmmaker Michael Bates; visual artists Joshua Bryan, Luke Dubois, Jon Niborg Speier, Rokhshad Nourdeh, and Joshue Ott/Superdraw; and writers Tom Bolt and Rich Blomquist and Scott Jacobson of The Daily Show. Clyne has received numerous awards, including five consecutive ASCAP Plus Awards, a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2006 Commission Prize from ASCAP and the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). Her 2008 work Within Her Arms premiered on the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella series in 2009. Anna Clyne returns to Cabrillo Festival for the second year in row following her success last season with <>. On August 14, 2011 she will join us at Mission San Juan Bautista when Marin Alsop and the Festival Orchestra perform Within Her Arms at Cabrillo.

www.AnnaClyne.com

Photo by: Todd Rosenberg