Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Anne Katherine Hege
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Music Composition, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (2014)
Dissertation: Spirit in the Flesh: Essays on the Relationship between the Body and Meaning in Performance
Four essays examine how embodied cognition theory can be used to analyze a listener’s physical engagement in musical-multimedia works.
Composition: There’s a Spirit in the Flesh for electronics, trombone, voice, and dancer. Concert length work composed for sound and movement through bodies, controllers, and instruments. Barbara White, advisor; Composition studies: Paul Lansky, Dmitri Tymoczko, Dan Trueman, Rinde Eckert and Steve Mackey.
M.F.A. Music Composition, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (2013)
M.A. Music Composition, Mills College, Oakland, CA (2004)
Written Master’s Thesis: Composers: The New Revolutionaries Analysis of the influence of politics on the compositions of Luigi Nono, Pauline Oliveros and Meredith Monk.
David Bernstein, advisor; Chris Brown and Maggi Payne, readers.
Master’s Thesis Concert: Composed, directed and produced As Full as the Sea, fifty-minute spatialized, original composition for five ensembles and a campfire. Advised by Fred Frith.
B.A. Music, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (1998)
Senior Thesis: Ensemble Expressions Founded female vocal ensemble and worked through improvisation and exercises for one year to create an ensemble sound identity. Performed original composition titled, The Wisdom of the Heart. Neely Bruce and Melvin Strauss, advisors.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING:
2008, 10, 15 Deep Listening Retreat with Pauline Oliveros, Cork, Ireland and CA
2009 Atelier in Multimedia Dialogue with Laurie Anderson, Princeton, NJ
2008 Meredith Monk Workshop, NYC
2005 SuperCollider 3 Course, RADAR Festival, Mexico City
2003 Choral Conducting, Holy Names College Summer Kodaly Program, CA
2002 Advanced Choral Conducting, UC Berkeley with Marika Kuzma, Berkeley, CA
1995 Semester course in the Kodaly Method, Kodaly Institute, Kecskemet, Hungary
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
2012 Research Affiliate, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University
2007-2011 Graduate Fellow, Princeton University
2006-2007 The Mark Nelson Fellowship, Princeton University
2003 The Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize, Mills College
2003 Mayflower Choral Society Grant for further study in choral conducting, CA
2003 Graduate Research Mini Grant, Mills College
2001-2003 Private Vocal Study Scholarship, Mills College
2001-2003 Graduate Assistantship, Mills College
1998 Departmental Honors, Wesleyan University
1998 The Gwen Livingston Pekora Prize in Music Composition, Wesleyan University
TEACHING:
2013-present Voice Class and Chorus Instructor at Holy Names University, Oakland, CA
2010-2012 Ear Training Instructor (Prof. Dmitri Tymoczko, Princeton University)
2009-2010 Assistant Instructor, Species Counterpoint and Tonal Syntax (Prof. Dan Trueman, Princeton University)
2008-2009 Assistant Instructor, Music Theory through Performance and Composition (Prof. Dmitri Tymoczko, fall, Prof. Barbara White, spring, Princeton)
2007 Assistant Instructor, When Music is Made (Prof. Paul Lansky, Princeton)
2005-2006 Music Theory Instructor, Diplomado Choral Conducting Program, Mexico City
2004-2006 Master Class Instructor in Vocal Technique and Performance, Mexico City
2004-2006 Voice and Theory Instructor, Escuela Nacional de Musica de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City
2003-2006 Private Voice Studio
2003-2004 Choral Music Instructor at Stanley Middle School, Lafayette CA
2001-2003 Instructor Musicianship IV, Mills College, CA
CONDUCTING:
2015-present Level IV Director, San Francisco Girls Chorus, San Francisco, CA
2014-2015 Music Director at Lake Merritt United Methodist Church, Oakland, CA
2014-present Co-Director of Concert Choir, Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, CA
2013-present Artistic Director of Voci Women’s Vocal Ensemble, Oakland, CA
2013-present Director of the Holy Names University Chorus, Oakland, CA
2008-2011 Chancel Choir Director and Alleluia Youth Choir Director at the Pennington United Methodist Church, NJ
2007 Conductor of the Voices in the Virtual World Choir, Oakland, CA
2004-2006 Vocalist and director, Four Winds Vocal Ensemble, Mexico City, Mexico
2000-2004 Founder and Director of the Albany Community Chorus, Albany, CA
1999-2009 Director of the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir training camp, CA
1999-2004 Director for the Piedmont East Bay Children’s training department, CA
1999-2002 Music Director at the Albany United Methodist Church, Albany, CA
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
2015 “Ritual Practice as Compositional Material: Including the Audience in the Process,” co-presented with choreographer Carrie Ahern at the New Music Gathering, San Francisco Conservatory, SF, CA
2015 “From the Waters: Reclaiming What is Lost & The Art of Burial” presented with Carrie Ahern at the 112th Earl Lectures and Leadership Conference Be Art Now, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA
2013 “From the Waters” Workshop presented at the First Annual Deep Listening Conference at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
2013 “From the Waters: Performance and Practice” presented at the Conference of Contemplative Practices for a Technological Society: Cultivating Mind Body Practices to Invent Our Future, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
2012 “There’s a Spirit in the Flesh: Physical Engagement and the Creation of Meaning” presented at the Center for Arts Center Policy Studies as a part of their working paper series, Princeton, NJ
2012 “Middle Passage: Reclaiming What is Lost as Performance and Practice” presented at the Symposium on Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras at LSU, Baton Rouge, LA
2010 Reclaiming What is Lost Workshop presented at the Oakopolis Gallery, CA
2010 “When the Spoken Word Sings: Kenneth Gaburo’s Maledetto” excerpt published for Theoretical: The Music and Theory of Kenneth Gaburo with Chris Mann, David Dunn, Larry Polansky and Nate Wooley, Issue Project Room, NYC
2010 “Sympathetic Vibrations: Connecting With the Audience Through Images of the Body” revision, presented at the (Re)making (Re)presentation Conference at CUNY, NYC
2009 “Sympathetic Vibrations: Connecting With the Audience Through Images of the Body” presented at the Music and the Moving Image Conference at NYU, NYC
2009 “Composing an Instrument, Building a Performer: The works of Diamanda Galás” presented at the Eighth Annual New Music Festival at Cal State Fullerton, CA
2007 “Where Music and Politics Converge: Luigi Nono’s Il Canto Sospeso” presented at the Princeton University Italian Studies Symposium, NJ
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2015
Like Roots for treble chorus, two GameTrak tether controllers, and triangle, commissioned by Voci Women’s Vocal Ensemble and premiered at the Sonic Harvest annual concert, Berkeley, CA.
Spectral Listening for multiple mobile devices commissioned by Daniel Iglesia and the Google Ensemble of Mobile Devices, Mountain View, CA
2014
Like Roots for voice and GameTrak tether controller, performed at the Valley Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA
2013
Borrowed Prey II, music for evening length performance work commissioned by Carrie Ahern Dance, Alwan For the Arts, Manhattan, NY
2012
The Hut Performance curated by Jill Sigman performed at St. Nick’s Alliance, Brooklyn, NY. Performed forty minute continuous set of original songs for voice, guitar, and my analog live-looper, the tape machine, in Jill Sigman’s Hut installation.
Borrowed Prey I, music for evening length performance work commissioned by Carrie Ahern Dance, Dickson’s Farmstand Meats, Chelsea Market, NYC
2011
There’s A Spirit in the Flesh for electronics, trombone, voice, and dancer. Evening length work presented as my dissertation piece in Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, NJ
2010
SenSate, music for evening length immersive dance piece commissioned by Carrie Ahern Dance, Baltimore Theater Project (2011), 14 Wall Street, NYC (2010), Brooklyn Lyceum (2009).
2009
Make Me Perfect for electronics, voice and video in collaboration with Harrison Owen (video) mentored by Laurie Anderson, presented at various venues, NJ and NY
13 Ways of Seeing a Blackbird for mixed chorus, Richardson Auditorium (Princeton Chamber Choir) and Taplin Auditorium (NY Virtuoso Singers), Princeton, NJ
I See Spirits for tape machine, Whitman Theater, Princeton University, NJ
2008
Vocal Fantasy for female vocal trio, tape, mirrors and lighting, Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ
The Silken Tent for the NOW Ensemble, Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ
Winged Fragments: A Dream of Six Swans for mixed chamber ensemble, conductor/dancer and four-channel tape track. Performed by Ensemble Klang, Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ
Anne and Dominique’s Radio Show, evening length work composed and created in collaboration with Dominique Leone for mixed chamber ensemble, vocal trio, tape machine, and sound samples. Oakopolis Gallery, Oakland, CA
Incantation for the King of Soul for Newspeak chamber ensemble, Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ
2007
Grey and Spectral, for PLOrk and SATB soloists. Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, NJ
Maybe the Monolith will just calm down for four-channel tape, soprano and live vocal processing. Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ and Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA
The Children’s Hour by Sidecar Syndicate, cabaret/art song program with original compositions made seamless with electronic interludes, various performances in CA, NY and NJ.
2006
Shadow and Silver by Sidecar Syndicate, cabaret/art song program made seamless with original electronic interludes, various performances in CA and Mexico.
2004
Timepiece by Sidecar Syndicate (Anne Hege and Heather Heise) Marsh Theater, San Francisco, CA
2003
Close, collaboration with Mimi Hamman using Internet I-2 technology facilitated by Pauline Oliveros, Hayward State, CA
Mouth Masks, live vocal processing for vocalist with amplified mouth retainers, Mills College, CA
2002
Sea Journey, duet for spoken and sung voice, Signal Flow Music Festival, Mills College, CA
2001
Furusato: a home destroyed for the Contemporary Performance Ensemble, Mills College, CA
Mythologues, for female vocal quartet, electric bass, and tape, Oakland, CA
2000
Folk 3000, for female vocal quartet, electric bass, and tape, Albany, CA
ARTS MANAGEMENT:
2015-present Community Engagement Coordinator, San Francisco Girls Chorus, SF, CA
2009 Curator of the Sounding Art exhibit at the Oakopolis Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007 Co-presenter Sounded Text: a symposium on music, performance, and new media, Princeton University, NJ
2006-2011 Board member at the Oakopolis Gallery, Oakland, CA
2000-2004 Program Coordinator of the Albany Community Chorus, Albany, CA
1998-1999 Board member of the Austin ProChorus, Austin, TX
1997 Intern at the Smithsonian Institute, Festival of American Folklife, Washington, D.C
VOCAL WORK:
SOLO:
2010-2011 Soloist for premier and recording of Dmitri Tymoczko’s Fools and Angels, NJ
2009-2010 Soloist and composer for choreographer Elena Demyanenko, NY
2008-present Soloist and composer for Carrie Ahern Dance Company, NY
2006-present Soloist and composer in performance duo “New Prosthetics,” NY and CA
2004-2008 Soloist in performance duo “Sidecar Syndicate,” CA, NJ, NY, and Mexico
2004 Recitalist at the Shepherd of the Hills Church, Tiburon, CA
2003 Soloist in the 20th Anniversary Concert of the Yerba Buena Center, CA
2003 Soloist at the Oakland Christian Scientist Christmas Celebration, CA
2003 Solo Vocal Recital at Mills College, Oakland, CA
1998-1999 Vocalist with singer/songwriter Nathan Kracklauer, Austin, TX
ENSEMBLE:
2009-present Vocalist, composer, and player in Sideband, touring laptop ensemble, NJ
2007-2010 Vocalist and founder of new vocal trio “Celestial Mechanics,” NY, NJ, and CA
2007-2009 Vocalist in the Princeton University Chamber Choir, Princeton, NJ
2006-2007 Member of the Princeton Women’s Georgian Choir, Princeton, NJ
2004-2006 Vocalist in Voce e Tempore, Mexico, DF
2004 Paid vocalist for the Oakland Symphony, CA
2004 Vocalist in the Meredith Monk Marathon at Mills College, CA
2004 Paid vocalist with Volti professional chorus, San Francisco, CA
2002 Member of the UC Berkeley Chamber Singers, UC Berkeley, CA
1998-1999 Paid vocalist with the Austin ProChorus, Austin, TX
1996-1998 Performed with the Wesleyan University Chamber Chorus, CT
1994-1998 Vocalist in the “Cardinal Sinners” a cappella group, Middletown, CT
1992-1994 Paid vocalist with the Redwood House Choir, Oakland, CA
TOURS
2009 Celestial Mechanics Vocal Trio Northern California winter tour, performing works Fefferman, Hege, Ligeti, Narveson, Marble, and Paden, CA
2008 What is Rooted is Easily Nourished winter tour performed by Celestial Mechanics and New Prosthetics in NJ and NYC
2007 The Children’s Hour fall tour performed by Sidecar Syndicate, NJ and NYC
2006 Shadow and Silver tour performed by Sidecar Syndicate with various performances in Mexico City and Cuernavaca, Mexico
INTERESTS:
1993-present Private voice study with various teachers including Cheryl Keller, Timothy Michaels, Kristin Norderval, and Priscilla Gale, CA, CT, NJ, and NY
2009 Hiked the John Muir Trail through the Sierra Nevada Mountains (210 miles)
2004-2005 Spanish language study at the Centro de Enseñanza Para Extranjeros, Mexico
2003, 2008 Adult piano studies, continuation of eight years of childhood piano instruction
1998 Participated in the Aids Ride 5 from San Francisco to LA
1994-1995 Adult flute studies, continuation of seven years of childhood instruction