Curriculum Vitae
Anne Katherine Hege
www.annehege.com
Bio
Born in Oakland, CA, Anne Hege began her musical studies singing with the Piedmont Children’s Choir and the Oakland Youth Chorus. Formative projects with innovators such as Keith Terry and Linda Tillery inspired her multimedia leanings. Hege received her BA from Wesleyan University and MA in music composition from Mills College where she worked with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran and Fred Frith. Hege has continued her studies at Princeton University as a graduate fellow in music composition where she has studied with Dan Trueman, Paul Lansky, Barbara White, and Steve Mackey. She is currently researching embodiment in multimedia composition for her dissertation in Music Composition at Princeton University. Hege's work has been recognized with awards such as The Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize, The Gwen Livingston Pekora Prize in Music Composition and a Mark Nelson Fellowship. Ensembles such as the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Klang, Newspeak, NOW Ensemble, Voce e Tempore, Piedmont Concert Choir and the New York Virtuoso Singers have played her compositions. Hege has composed works for film, installation art, dance and concert settings. Over the last three years, she has explored writing music for dance in her work with choreographers Carrie Ahern, Jill Sigman, Elena Demyanenko and Donna Costello. She performs original works in her duos, New Prosthetics and Sidecar, as well as in the vocal trio, Celestial Mechanics. She recently joined the touring laptop ensemble Sideband as performer and composer. Her latest compositions lie somewhere between ritual, music, and theater with some homemade instruments thrown in for good measure.