Annea Lockwood
Professor Emeritus
B.Mus., Canterbury University, New Zealand; L.R.A.M., A.R.C.M. Diplomas, Royal College of Music. Born in New Zealand, Lockwood moved to Europe in 1961, studying composition at the Royal College of Music, London, and at the Musikhochschule, Cologne. She took seminars with various composers at the Summer Courses in New Music, Darmstadt, Germany. In the mid-60s, she collaborated extensively with choreographers and sound-poets and began an extended exploration of environmental sound and eletroacoustic music from which came such works as the Glass Concerts (amplified sounds from glass), the Piano Transplants (sound sculptures), World Rhythms, and installations such as a Sound Map of the Hudson River.
In the mid-'80s, Lockwood turned to instrumental and vocal composition in works which often include non-Western instruments and explore unusual sound-colors -- for example, Thousand Year Dreaming (for an ensemble which includes four didgeridus, conch shell trumpets, frame drumming and images from the Lascaux cave paintings). Her music has been presented at festivals in Germany, Scandinavia, Austria, Italy, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. and recorded on CRI, Lovely Music, Harmonia Mundi, Opus One, Finnadar/Atlantic and other labels. A member of the Vassar faculty since 1982, Lockwood often teaches at other institutions as a guest composer.