Annea Lockwood

Composer Annea Lockwood (b. 1939 in Aotearoa, New Zealand) is known for her explorations of natural acoustic sounds and environments in works ranging from installations to concert music. In recent years, her music has received widespread attention, including a Columbia University Miller Theatre Composer Portrait concert, two feature articles in the New York Times, and a documentary film by director Sam Green. Her sound maps of the Hudson River, the Danube, and the Housatonic River have been widely presented in Europe, the U.K., the United States and Australia, in addition to her instrumental works. Three recent collaborative works – Into the Vanishing Point with new music quartet Yarn/Wire, Becoming Air with avant-garde trumpeter Nate Wooley, and Skin Resonance with percussionist-composer Vanessa Tomlinson – were released on Black Truffle Records. Hearing Studies, co-authored with Ruth Anderson, was published by Open Space in 2021.

Wild Energy, a collaboration with Bob Bielecki focused on atmospheric, mammalian, and geophysical infra and ultrasound, is permanently installed at the Caramoor Center, Katonah. Elwha!, co-composed in 2025 with Claire Chase for flutes and field recordings of the Elwha River, received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation, and recently premiered at the Kitchen in New York City. Other recent presentations of her work include the Ojai Festival, Big Ears, Other Minds, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Rainy Days Luxembourg, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Noon to Midnight Festival, Tectonics-Athens, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. 

Lockwood is a recipient of the 2020 SEAMUS Award and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.