Annea Lockwood

Annea Lockwood (born July 29, 1939) is a New Zealand-born American composer. Her work incorporates microtonal, electroacoustic, and vocal music, as well as field recordings; she has also composed Fluxus-inspired pieces involving intentionally damaging pianos. She taught electronic music at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, from 1982 until her retirement. Early life and education Lockwood studied composition and completed a Bachelor of Music degree with honours from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. Her composition studies continued with Peter Racine Fricker at the Royal College of Music in London from 1961 to 1963; with Gottfried Michael Koenig at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse from 1963 to 1964; and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. She also studied in the Netherlands. Lockwood settled in London in 1964. Career and style During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lockwood performed and composed around Europe. Her compositions featured non-conventional instruments such as glass tubing used in The Glass Concert (1967). This work was published in the magazine Source: Music of the Avant Garde and later recorded and released by Tangent Records. In the 1970s, Lockw