Livewire 14: Annea Lockwood Portrait Concert

The final event of the Livewire 14: Resounding new music festival presents the work of featured New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood, who brings vibrant energy, ceaseless curiosity, and a profound sense of openness to her music. Lockwood’s lifelong fascination with the visceral effects of sound in our environments and through our bodies — the way sounds unfold and their myriad “life spans” — serves as the focal point for works ranging from concert music to performance art to multimedia installations.

The program will include:
Amazonia Dreaming for solo snare drum
Immersion
bayou-borne
On Fractured Ground
For Ruth

In recent years, Lockwood (b. 1939) and her music have received widespread attention, including a Columbia University Miller Theatre Composer Portrait concert, a feature article in The New York Times, a SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award, a documentary film by director Sam Green, and most recently, election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her recent collaborative works Into the Vanishing Point with the ensemble Yarn/Wire and Becoming Air with avant-garde trumpeter Nate Wooley were released on Black Truffle Records to great acclaim. Her work has been presented internationally at institutions and festivals such as Lucerne Festival, Tectonics Athens Festival, Signale Graz, Counterflows International Festival of Music and Art, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and many others.

Lockwood has received commissions from numerous ensembles and solo performers, including Bang On A Can, baritone Thomas Buckner, pianists Sarah Cahill, Lois Svard, and Jennifer Hymer, the Holon Scratch Orchestra, Essential Music, Yarn/Wire, and Issue Project Room.

Her music is recorded on the Lovely, XI, Mutable, Pogus, EM Records (Japan), Rattle Records, Recital, Harmonia Mundi, CRI, Superior Viaduct, Black Truffle, New World, Gruenrekorder, and Moving Furniture Records. Hearing Studies, co-authored with Ruth Anderson, was published by Open Space in 2021.

Please join us at 4:30 prior to the concert for a conversation with the composer.

And, before the conversation and the performance, please enjoy the free Annea Lockwood installation A Sound Map of the Hudson River, which will be running from 1:30 to 4 p.m.

$15 general admission, $10 seniors, $5 students. Please visit here to reserve seats.

To view the complete Livewire 14: Resounding festival schedule, please visit here.

Linehan Concert Hall, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, is easy to visit, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information.

Livewire is sponsored in part by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA).